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Racosperma
mangium (Willd.) Pedley
Synonym : Acacia mangium
Willd.
Family
: Mimosoideae
Local Names
: Manjium, Hickory Wattle,
Black Wattle
Flowering
and fruiting period:
July – February
Distribution: Australia
Habitat: Grown as avenue tree, also raised in
plantations
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic: No
Uses: The germinating
seeds can be cooked and eaten as a vegetable. Gums are sometimes taken
internally in the treatment of diarrhoea and haemorrhoids. The tree is widely grown to provide pulp
for the paper industry.
Key
Characters:
Trees, to 30 m high, bark pale
grey-brown. Phyllode simple; petiole
stout, pulvinate; lamina elliptic-oblong, margin entire. Flowers
bisexual, white, in loose axillary spikes; calyx gamosepalous; corolla
gamopetalous, deeply lobed; stamens many; filaments free; ovary superior,
puberulous. Fruit a pod, woody, twisting into spiral cluster.
