ACACIA KETTLEWELLIAE

common names: Buffalo Wattle
type collected: R Cambage, Vic, 1913.

habit: tall shrub to small tree, to 8m.

foliage: Reddish brown branchlets, with smooth blue to grey-green elliptic phyllodes, obtuse apex with point, single main nerve of centre, prominent gland in lower half of phyllode connected with main vein, phyllode bent or curved near the gland.

flowers: Bright yellow ball flowers on racemes, 10 - 25 each raceme. Flowers in spring.

pods: Broad straight, 30 - 100mm x 7 - 13mm, slighly consticted between the seeds.

seeds: Longitudinal to angled in pod, sometimes transverse, short aril.

distribution: Alpine regions of NE Vic and SE NSW, woodlands and eucalypt forest at higher altitudes.

notes: Plant tops found to contain %1.88 alkaloids, b-phenethylamine mostly. Suitable for cultivation in cooler areas. ( references: 11)