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Id required please collected tree

Posted: August 14th, 2011, 4:18 pm
by Paulneill
Hi i collected this tree today
could some one please identify it for me please.

Re: Id required please collected tree

Posted: August 14th, 2011, 4:21 pm
by Handy Mick
Hi mate did you collect in the bush land or in someone's yard?

Re: Id required please collected tree

Posted: August 14th, 2011, 4:35 pm
by alpineart
Hi Paulneill , could possibly be a Hakea , leaves look very similar however i don't know the species well .Cheers Alpineart

Re: Id required please collected tree

Posted: August 14th, 2011, 5:07 pm
by Paulneill
I found it growing at the back of my sisters garden.
thanks for that alpineart. if your right they have beautiful pin cushion flowers.

Re: Id required please collected tree

Posted: August 14th, 2011, 5:56 pm
by Joel
I think they are phyllodes from an Acacia. Looks like it is likely closely related to Acacia binervia (but it can't be that because the veins in the leaf are wrong).

Joel

Re: Id required please collected tree

Posted: August 14th, 2011, 7:58 pm
by Webos
wouldnt be acacia melanoxylon (Blackwood) would it?

Re: Id required please collected tree

Posted: August 14th, 2011, 8:03 pm
by Handy Mick
Yeh, i thought it could be a type of wild wattle.