Acacia concurrens
Pedley
Black wattle
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Seeds, Roots
The seeds are parched, cleaned, and milled for consumption. The roots are also edible.
Where to Find It
It suits subtropical locations. It is a hardy plant and can grow in cooler places. It needs good drainage and full sunlight. It grows well in coastal areas.
Australia*,
How to Identify
A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m tall. There are prickles along the stem. The leaves are twice divided and there are 8-18 pairs of pinnae. There are up to 50 pairs of pinnules on each pinnae. The flowers are yellow. They are in large clusters at the ends of branches. The pods are flattened.
Nutrition Score: 57/100
| Part | Moisture | kJ | kcal | Protein | Vit A | Vit C | Iron | Zinc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 3.9 | 1935 | 463 | 23.3 | — | — | — | — |
| Roots | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
How to Grow
It is grown from seed. The seeds have a hard seed coat that needs to be broken.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Acacia concurrens, commonly known as curracabah or black wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a single-stemmed glabrous shrub or tree, with fissured bark, scurfy branchlets, very narrowly elliptic to narrowly elliptic, leathery phyllodes, spikes of pale yellow flowers and linear, semicircular, pods.
Notes
There are about 1,350 Acacia species. Over 1,000 occur in Australia. Also as Mimosaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Curracabah
References (9)
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