ON THIS PLANT
Acacia excelsa, also known as ironwood, rosewood, doodlallie or bunkerman and as dhan, gayan or gan in the Gamilaraay language, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north-east of Australia. It is a tree, often with a weeping habit, glabrous branchlets, with narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of creamy-white to pale or bright yellow flowers and linear, firmly papery to crusty pods.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Genus
- Acacia
- Family
- Leguminosae
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Ironwood en Ironwood acacia en Ironwood wattle en Bunkerman en Doodlallie en Rosewood
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