Dear members

I'm new to this forum, and I'm grateful to those who will assist me. I found a tree in a nearby Valley and I'm sure it is Acacia, but I'm unsure of the details. Could someone kindly assist me. What have I got here? (South Africa)

Thanks
Murray

There's an Acacia and Mimosa identification thread with ca 70 pages, maybe sift through that if you have time and feel like it. Or maybe a mod will move this there.

I don't know enough about Acacias to make any good guesses. At first glance i noticed the phyllodes looking slightly similar to the ones on my supposed Acacia acuminata (long and with curved tip, but rather too wide), but i think the flowers are wrong and i never heard of it growing in South Africa (which doesn't say anything). I live in Switzerland, so i don't encounter any Acacias in the wild - just happy that i got them to sprout and not die on me yet, and hoping the seeds were labelled correctly

So i tried some searching. One i found that looks very similar to my eye is Acacia saligna, of Australian origin too but also cultivated on different continents. That site has a list of identification keys, the only one listed for Africa is

Maybe you can find it in a library or online...

Can you tell a bit more about these trees? How tall do they grow, what environment are they in, like soil type, wet/dry, coast or inland, etc? A picture with the entire tree might help too.

I hope someone who actually knows things about Acacias will chime in and solve the mystery...