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Acacia excelsa
Also called Doodlallie, Ironwood, Rosewood, Ironwood Acacia, Ironwood Wattle
Acacia excelsa, also known as ironwood, rosewood, doodlallie or bunkerman and as dhangayangan in the Gamilaraay language, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north-east of Australia. It is a tree, often with a weeping habit, glabrous branchlets, with narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of creamy-white to pale or bright yellow flowers and linear, firmly papery to crusty pods.
It has a wide-ranging but scattered distribution throughout inland parts of southern inland Queensland extending into northern and central New South Wales. In New South Wales it is found as far south as Condbolin and as far east as Warialda. It is found growing in sandy loamy soils as a part of open woodland or savannah grassland communities.
The bark of this species, like all Acacias, contain appreciable amounts of tannins and are astringent and can be used for medical purposes including for the treatment of diarrhoea and dysentery when used internally or used to treat wounds, haemorrhoids or some eye problems when used externally. The trees can also produce gum from the stems which is also taken internally to treat haemorrhoids and diarrhoea. The wood produced by the tree is close-grained, very tough and hard and elastic and is suitable for cabinet-work and instrument fretboards. It was used by Indigenous Australian peoples to make boomerangs and spearthrowers.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia excelsa 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.
