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Acacia rhodoxylon
Acacia rhodoxylon, also known as rosewood, ringy rosewood or spear wattle, is a tree belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is native to north eastern Australia.
It is endemic along the east coast of central Queensland where it is found from around Eidsvold in the south to around Clermont in the north with another disjunct population near Mount Garnett further north where it is a part of Eucalyptus woodland communities. It is often situated in hilly areas or undulating plains in the eastern part of the brigalow belt where it grows in skeletal sandy to clay soils with poor fertility where it is a part of open forest.
The tree produces a quality and attractive timber but was historically used for fencing as the wood is termite resistant. It has decorative uses as a turned wood, in xylophones and for parts of violins as a substitute for ebony and in sporting goods requiring straight grained timber.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia rhodoxylon 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.
