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Acacia cana
Also called Broadleaf Wattle, Cabbagetree, Cabbagetree Wattle
Acacia cana, commonly known as boree, cabbage-tree wattle or broad-leaved nealie, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with rigid, linear to very narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of bright yellow flowers, and linear, leathery to papery pods.
Boree grows in woodland on gibber plains near watercourses and in sandy soil in western New South Wales west of Enngonia and north of Wilcannia, and in southern central Queensland near Adavale.
Acacias seeds, roots, and gum are types of aboriginal bush tucker that very nutritious food sources that have unique tastes and provide high levels of protein, carbohydrates and fibre and low levels of fats. Acacia seeds are found to have chocolate-like taste and are best known for being an ingredient for making bread while roots were roasted before eating and the gum was collected and eaten as snack or placed in water to make a flavored drink. Acacias were not only used as bush tucker but as wood for certain aboriginal tools for example hunting and fishing spears. Another use of these native shrubs/trees was for some medical treatments of headaches, fevers and colds.
Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia cana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
