Acacia melanoxylon

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Acacia melanoxylon, commonly known as blackwood, Tasmanian blackwood, hickory, sally wattle, black sally or mudgerabah, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a tree, sometimes a shrub, with hard, fissured and somewhat scaly bark, ribbed, usually glabrous branchlets, narrowly elliptic or lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of creamy pale yellow to white flowers, and strongly curved to openly coiled pods.

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