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Hey all,

 

Had a lovely week off exploring the wildflowers of the wheatbelt, part of the exploration was to try and identify Acacia acuminata variants in my region. Whilst I believe I was too far north for the typical variant I am still a little unsure on the variants I located. I am confident that the species is not burkittii but could be acuminata variants 1/2.  Phyllode's typically 3-5mm wide, 80-120mm long, tips curved acuminate, lemon yellow flowers. I have inserted a few images that may help out,

Cheers E'

 

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Nice tree you found etho.

 

Definitely not burkittii, these are shrubs with needle-like leaves, the ones i've grown and seen wild in SA anyway, also don't form small trees.

 

Below is a 'narrow leaf' acuminata in my garden; also have wide-leaved in the background of the second pic. maybe what you have there is like a wide-leaved version that has narrower leaves because it is in the north (drier) extent of the range. climatic variation. in my garden  wide and narrow are very distinct. wide leaved is a larger more robust tree overall, narrow leaf grows slower and more shrubby, never has a trunk like you have in those photos but wide-leaf forms a trunk, conditions are the same. the one you picture is intermediate, so i am leaning to climatic variation of the wide leaf variety. never been to sw wa though, no personal field experience, never looked in a book about this species at all.

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Thanks for your input Micromegas, very interesting reading, some lovely trees you having growing there. I bought a couple of narrow leaf variants that are slowly gaining ground in my garden. Was up at Shark Bay the other leaf and came across another acuminata variant, really long phyllodes, not many flowers as they've had a very dry winter up that way. 

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Shark Bay hey.

 

When I was up in the Pilbara I saw lots of acacia citrinoviridis around. I have 10,000 + photos from that region be buggered if I can find the few I took of that acacia right now!

 

But a.citrinoviridis is a dead ringer for a.acuminata, it's called pilbara jam, smells like raspberry jam when you break it, has ehtnobotanical uses but my ethno guide to the region is somewhere else than here. Below is the distribution range, just outside of shark bay.

 

Browse to the list of specimens for Acacia citrinoviridis Tindale & Maslin

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