hi all
swim is planing to extract some spice from acacia acuminata and is not sure hes looking at the right tree due to vague descriptions and only some low quality images to go on. swim was wondering if anyone can determine whether its acuminata in the photos. the photos were taken in york btw

They look about right form a distance, the shape of them anyway. but i cant be certain. the best way to check is if they have a little hook on the ends of their leaves.
also i would like to stress how important it is that you do not take the bark from this tree. i have been to places in York where many of these trees have been ring barked and even chopped down. some of them are struggling on a thin strip of bark that was left. its absolutely disgusting seeing this, very greedy if you ask me. especially considering these trees are such slow growers and many of them are dead from ring barking.
I would recommend using the leaves, They contain up to 1.5% alkaloids and the yields are good and remarkably clean. i have friends who had also had great success with the leaves.
I hope this helps. : : )

Yeah bud looks good to me. But like old mate said, the thin leaves/phyllodes are the kicker and the distinct hook at their ends gives them right away. SWIM recently had some good luck with a large windblown and perfectly dried branch (the bark basically fell of the wood)which gave them a better yield than trunk bark samples (used the dried leaves as well but potentially burnt them in the cook so the yield was almost zero). Though it's not always easy to find this, so if you do have to take live bark; choose one tree, lop it, saw it, use every part of it, and plant another in its stead. That's my advice and ethos anyway and I'd like to know what others think about it (Alienteaparty? ). And one hot tip, don't use NB's STB tek! Luckily I was being cautious and didn't use all of my bark, but the bit that I did use came out as acrid orange goop. There might be better STB teks out there but that one defs backfired on me hard, propelling me straight back to the laborious comfort of A/B.

Salud bro.

..echoing alienteaparty, this tree (and a. obtusifolia) are quite slow growing in the wild..relying on natural rain, the trees in your photo are easily 20 years old..large trees provide the seed stock for the future, and only a very small % of seed ever germinates naturally..in cultivation with lots of fertilizer and water, growth rates are much faster..
..at over 1% in the leaves, why would you need to use bark?..this just seems disrespectful of the life form..and not very symbiotic..

if you have to use bark, at least just prune a large branch and let the tree live on..like, how much dmt do you and your friends need? tree killers are usually greedy salesmen..
i think the majority of long-term students of acacia would agree with me..this more caring approach is more likely to lead to long-term 'friendly' experiences..
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