Tropical Zone Gardening: Restless natives of the Top End, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
It's this time of year our many Acacias start to flower. Another photo I took today - Acacia dimidiata. Often growing in swampy conditions, it's also found in better drained areas. Like a lot of Acacias, it grows rapidly, has a shallow root system, and goes over easily in a storm. One of the only trees on my place that completely toppled last year when Cyclone Helen came through. And it's only a small spindly tree.

Called Manborrelk by Aborigines, the seed pods were crushed and used as a fish 'poison'.. But they told me you could eat the green seeds.

Photo 094

This message was edited Mar 31, 2009 10:44 AM