Australian Blackwood is an erect or spreading tree
6-30 m tall. Bark is deeply fissured, dark gray-black, branchlets
angled or flattened, hairy or hairless. Leaves (phyllodes actually) are
narrowly elliptic to inverted-lanceshaped, straight or somewhat
sickleshaped, 6-14 cm long, 0.7-3 cm wide, hairless, 3-5 or more
longitudinal veins prominent, prominently net-veined in between, tip
pointed to blunt, with a small point. There is 1 gland near base.
Inflorescences occur 2-8 in racemes in leaf axils. Axis is 2.5-8 cm
long; peduncles 5-20 mm long, hairy. Flower-heads are spherical,
30–50-flowered, 5-10 mm in diameter, pale yellow to white. Pods are
strongly curved or twisted or coiled, biconvex, usually straight-sided
to slightly constricted between seeds, 4-12 cm long, 5-8 mm wide,
firmly papery, smooth, glabrous. Seeds are longitudinal, funicle orange
to reddish, folded and surrounding seed. Australian Blackwood is native
to Australia, but now natualized on all continents. Flowering:
July-December.
Identification credit: Dinesh Valke
Photographed in Ooty, Tamil Nadu.
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