Acacia melanoxylon, commonly known as blackwood, Tasmanian blackwood, hickory, sally wattle, black sally or mudgerabah, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a tree, sometimes a shrub, with hard, fissured and somewhat scaly bark, ribbed, usually glabrous branchlets, narrowly elliptic or lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of creamy pale yellow to white flowers, and strongly curved to openly coiled pods.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Blackwood being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acacia
- Species
- Acacia melanoxylon
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