Fabaceae FAMILY

Acacia polybotrya

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

Especially in times of drought, many Acacia species can concentrate high levels of the toxin Hydrogen cyanide in their foliage, making them dangerous for herbivores to eat.

Botanical Description

Acacia polybotrya is a many-stemmed, flat-topped shrub growing 0.5 - 5 metres tall[ 286 Title Flora of Australia Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/abif/flora/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description The full information from the Flora of Australia - on-line. An excellent resource. ]. Although most Australian Acacias produce phyllodes instead of true leaves after their first year or so of growth, this is one of the few species that continues to produce leaves into maturity and does not produce phyllodes. The plant is harvested fom the wild as a source of materials. It is cultivated as a source of tannins in the mountains of West Java[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeAustralia - New South Wales, southern Queensland

HabitatOpen forest or shrubland, in infertile sandy, rocky or gravelly clay soils[ 286 Title Flora of Australia Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/abif/flora/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description The full information from the Flora of Australia - on-line. An excellent resource. ].