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Acacia melanoxylon, Blackwood
 Acacia melanoxylon
Family: Mimosoideae / Mimosaceae
Blackwood
Origin: Australia
big treefull sunmoderate wateryellow/orange flowersethnomedicalattracts butterflies, hummingbirds

The fine hard wood of this wattle makes strong spear handles, boomerangs, clubs, and shields in the Victorian age.

People soaked the bark in water to bathe painful joints. The inner bark was used to make string.


  


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