Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia implexa
Common name
Hickory wattle, Lightwood, Screw-pod Wattle, Bastard Myall, Lignum Vitae, Fish Wattle, Broad-leaf Wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and other habitats. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 15 m tall. White fleshy seed stalks/arils folded below the seed. Bark smooth, becoming rough especially at the base, more or less with a chequered appearance, fissured, or corrugated. Branchlets cylindrical or rarely angled, hairless, often with a slight waxy bloom. Compound leaves may persist on young plants. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 7-20 cm long, 6-25 mm wide, 'leaves' curved to strongly curved, surfaces hairless, 3–7 longitudinal veins prominent, tips pointed or somewhat pointed, often with a mucro. Flower heads yellow to white, globular, 5-10 mm in diameter, 30-52 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 4-8 flower heads. Flowers chiefly Jan. to April. Pods coiling or twisting as they ripen, held on the plant in dense clusters. Aril whitish, folded below the seed.
Family was Mimosaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Possible hybrids between Acacia implexa and Acacia melanoxylon have been reported.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~implexa (accessed 22 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=i&id=20535&o=1
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