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I'm not that handy with this camera or photo manipulation, but here goes: Phyllode: Tip detail: Base detail: 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!

I've had many a battle with those snails and slugs. The beer traps never did any good for me. The best thing I've found is copper tape sold at the local nursery, 20ft or so for ~5 USD. I put a ring of it around two support buckets, put a board over those to make a bench, then put a bunch of planters up on the board. Works prefectly. 4 ft of copper tape protects ~10 plants this way. Before it came to this I assalted many a vile slug.

thanks for the welcome, planthelper. I'll be able to take much nicer photos in 3-5 business days 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!

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: broad leaf things: little leaves: 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 !