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Wattleseed Acacia are perennial woody crops of varying age and size with some reaching 4m tall and 5m across. [4] Their large size and multiple stems is an impediment to harvesting and has resulted in the development of several strategies of collecting seed pods, including 'finger stripping' of pods off of foliage, 'butt shaking' of the tree to dislodge pods, and whole biomass harvesting. [6]
It will later form dark brown seed pods with a curving and often twisted linear shape. Each pod is around 30 millimetres (1.2 in) in length with a width of 3.5 mm (0.1 in). Pods contain hard, dark brown seeds with an ovoid shape. Each seed is around 3.5 mm (0.1 in) long and 2.5 mm (0.1 in) wide. [1]
Acacia, commonly known as wattles [3] [4] or acacias, is a genus of about 1,084 species of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Australasia , but is now reserved for species mainly from Australia, with others from New ...
Acacia acinacea is a bushy or straggling, open shrub that typically grows to a height of around 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in). Its phyllodes are asymmetric, narrowly oblong to lance-shaped or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 4–15 mm (0.16–0.59 in) long and 2 to 8 mm (0.079 to 0.315 in) wide.
Sketch of Acacia cyclops phyllodes and flowers Sketches of various Acacia including A. cyclops seed pod at bottom right. Acacia cyclops, commonly known as coastal wattle, [2] cyclops wattle, one-eyed wattle, red-eyed wattle, redwreath acacia, western coastal wattle, rooikrans, rooikrans acacia, [3] is a coastal shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae.
The wattle is commonly associated with Eucalyptus incrassata, Melaleuca uncinata and Triodia irritans. It is restricted to an area approximately 8 km 2 (3.1 sq mi) and has an estimated population a few hundred to 5,000 individual plants. The shrub also situated on roadsides and in adjacent farming land.
The species is sold commercially as seedlings [2] or in seed form. [7] Seeds need to be pre-treated by scarifying or soaking in hot water prior to planting. The tree grows well in a sunny location in a wide range of soils including poor soils. It is fast growing and can shoot from root suckers making it a possible weed
The shrub or tree an erect or spreading habit, growing up to 9 m (30 ft) high [4] and it has pendulous and slender branchlets with pubescent ribs. [3] Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves The phyllodes are up to 2 cm (0.79 in) in length [4] and 4 to 8 mm (0.16 to 0.31 in) wide.