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Family: Mimosaceae	Genus: Acacia	Species: Acacia mangium Willd.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Racosperma mangium (Willd.)Pedley, Mangium montanum Rumph, Acacia holosericea A.Cunn.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Hickory Wattle, Black Wattle, mangge hutan, mangium, Sabah salwood	Flower Type	Panicle
English / Trade Name	Brown salwood	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	salwood, black wattle	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	about 480 m	Fruit Type	Pod
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Pods are broad, linear and irregularly coiled when ripe. They are membranous or slightly woody, inconspicuously veined. 3-5 mm wide and 7-10 cm long. Ripening pods change from green to brown, stiff and dry. Seeds are black and shiny with shape ranging from longitudinal, elliptical, ovate to oblong, 3-5 mm by 2-3 mm. The seeds are arranged longitudinally and attached to the pods by an orange to red folded funicle.
Habitat	The species is typically found in the tropical lowland climatic zone characterised by a short dry period of 4 months	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Acacia mangium originates from the humid tropical forests of north-eastern Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Molucca Islands of eastern Indonesia and widely introduced into many countries, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Chi	Bark Details	Young trees have smooth, greenish bark; fissures begin to develop at 2-3 years. Bark in older trees is rough, hard, fissured near the base, greyish-brown to dark brown, inner bark pale brown
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Elliptic
Description of Species	Hickory Wattle is a fast-growing, medium-sized, evergreen tree with expanded petioles that serve as leaves. Trees reach 30 m in height in their native range. The stem is usually straight and topped with a symmetrical crown of relatively light limbs; the lower bole is often fluted. The bark is reddish brown and lightly furrowed. Leaves (actually phyllodes) are 10-20 cm long, 5-10 cm broad, narrowly ellipti to elliptic, prominently veined, light or dark green. The small flowers are grouped in spikes up to 6-10 cm long, singly or in pairs in the leaf axils near the branch tips. The trees flower annually, usually at the end of the rainy season or the early part of the dry season.	Leaf Details	Phyllodes are large up to 25 cm long and 3.5-10 cm broad, 2-5 times as long as wide, straight or straight along 1 side and curved along the other, with 4 (max. 5) main longitudinal veins, secondary veins finely anastomosing; glaborous, pulvinus 6-10 cm long. A gland (extra floral nectary) is conspicuous at the base of the phyllode.

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