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yet another acacia ID!

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Hi people, this is my first post here, but I've been appreciating your wealth of knowledge for a while. I would be grateful if you would be so kind as to help me ID this plant. It's odd because it has the long leaves (phyllodes?), but also the little strange masses of leaflet leaves on different sections of a single branch. I don't know what its flowers look like, but I'll peel my eyeballs for that info in the future. My pics are a bit shabby, but hopefully I can get the point across:

bark of a stump:

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broad leaf things:

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little leaves:

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the plants owner doesn't care for it much, so I was able to snag a pretty large bag of leafy material. Does anyone know if they have interesting pharmacology? I feel a bit off making my first post a request for information, but I hope to have something to give back down the line. Thanks !

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wellcome to the forums!

i'm sure some people could id your plant, but the pic's you gave us so far, are not facilitating this process.

in short we need better photos. aswell it helps if you tell us where it's found, as this offten helps narrowing down the possebileties.

maybe it's acacia sophorae, in case it's located coastal...

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thanks for the welcome, planthelper. I'll be able to take much nicer photos in 3-5 business days :wink: I'm not so close to the mother plant anymore, but its grown in a z9 temperate coastal forest, in rich soil, in the northern hemisphere. It was probably planted as some kind of ornamental there ~50 years ago. Currently its growing a bit bushy with many saplings nearby, but it gets chopped down to a stump every so often so it could possibly grow to a tall tree. The original owner of the plant is a mystery to me, so they could have been eccentric about collecting obscure plants or attracted to a random one at the local nursery. At any rate it is very different from the other acacias I have seen in the surrounding 10 miles or so, especially since it has the long broad phyllodes and the arrays of small leafy things. Acacia sophorae looks about right to my untrained eye, except that the pictures I see of it online don't have the boomerang shaped phyllodes as much. Thanks for the help!

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The leaves (with leaflets) occur on seedlings, and you often get throwbacks to leaf growth where the plant is diseased.

It would be good if you can get a clear photo of the phyllodes so the venation (pattern of the veins) can be seen. Also something (ruler, matchbox, pen) to give the scale.

If you look in the litter under the tree you may be able to find some pods too. They would be a great help.

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I'm not that handy with this camera or photo manipulation, but here goes:

Phyllode:

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Tip detail:

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Base detail:

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The little leaf arrays have all sort of deteriorated as I'm drying the stuff out. Cristop, would cutting the tree back severely prompt the juvenile leaf arrays to grow? and is it normal for them to grow from 2-3 meter tall saplings? The plant doesn't seem diseased, but it might be in less than ideal conditions even though it's prolific. It's certainly not native to the area. I'll keep an eye on the mother plant every couple of months when I'm in the area to see about flowers and seedpods. Thanks again!

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