Acacia colletioides
Acacia colletioides
Safety & Hazards
Especially in times of drought, many Acacia species can concentrate high levels of the toxin Hydrogen cyanide in their foliage, making them dangerous for herbivores to eat.
Botanical Description
Acacia colletioides is a prickly, much-branched shrub usually growing 50 - 300cm tall and wide, often maturing into a single-stemmed tree 3 - 4 metres tall with a dense canopy occupying 50% of the total plant height[ 286 Title Flora of Australia Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/abif/flora/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description The full information from the Flora of Australia - on-line. An excellent resource. , 1297 Title Wattles of the Kalannie region: their identification, characteristics and utilisation Publication Author Maslin B.R. Website http://worldwidewattle.com/ Publisher Year 1998 ISBN Description Produced on a CDROM, a database of Acacias growing in a region of Western Australia. Fact sheets for individual species can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. Although it produces true leaves as a seedling, llike most members of this section of the genus, the mature plant does not have true leaves but has leaf-like flattened stems called phyllodes[ 286 Title Flora of Australia Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/abif/flora/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description The full information from the Flora of Australia - on-line. An excellent resource. ]. The plant has been used in the past as a source of tannins. It can be grown in soil stabilization projects and can be used to form effective barrier hedges.