acacian wrote:the close up pics are a little hard to look at as they are quite blurry - but that is not a subspecies of acuminata...there are a few variants of Acuminata - the narrow phyllode variant, the small seed variant and the broader lead variant... as well as what could argueable be called a subspecies "Acacia Burkitti" (it could also be called another species in its own right though)
Acuminata falls into a family of over 250 acacias called julifloreae.. each species in this section are differentiated by their own taxanomic qualities. and any tree in this family does not fall under classification of being a subspecies of acuminata. for the above tree to be clissified as acacia acuminata it needs to fit the profile for identification.. yellow rod flowers, linear seed pods, curled or "acuminate" tips of phyllodes, rough trunk bark...
what area of WA do you live in?
Okay thanks a lot for the input, I don't believe I have the right tree at all the bark isn't rough at all and as you said the flowering are are supposed to be cylinder shaped, in this case it's not.
I live close to CBD area roughly 30km north.
Any suggestions where to find the species, I have heard of some located in York.