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'''Acacia implexa''' is an [[Australian]] [[Acacia]], used for furniture making.  Its common name is Lightwood.
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Acacia implexa, Benth. A tall tree, 50 ft. high, with light green foliage and rough bark: phyll. falcate- lanceolate, acuminate, with a more or less hooked point, 4-7 in. long, 3/8-3/4in. wide, veins 3-5, with finer parallel veins between; no gland: fls. cream-yellow, in racemes much shorter than phyll., 40-50 in a head; peduncles 3/8in. long: pod curved, often like an interrogation point, light brown with nerve-like margin, more or less constricted and contracted between the seeds, 4-6 in. long, 1/4in. wide; seeds longitudinal; funicle club-shaped, folded once or twice at end of seed—Distinguished from A. melanoxylon by the more pointed and hooked phyll., while the funicle is cream-colored and folded at the end of the seed instead of being scarlet and twice encircling it as in A. melanoxylon.
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Acacia implexa, Benth. Fig. 72. A tall tree, 50 ft. high, with light green foliage and rough bark: phyll. falcate- lanceolate, acuminate, with a more or less hooked point, 4-7 in. long, 3/8-3/4in. wide, veins 3-5, with finer parallel veins between; no gland: fls. cream-yellow, in racemes much shorter than phyll., 40-50 in a head; peduncles 3/8in. long: pod curved, often like an interrogation point, light brown with nerve-like margin, more or less constricted and contracted between the seeds, 4-6 in. long, 1/4in. wide; seeds longitudinal; funicle club-shaped, folded once or twice at end of seed. F. v. M. Icon. 8:2.—Distinguished from A. melanoxylon by the more pointed and hooked phyll., while the funicle is cream-colored and folded at the end of the seed instead of being scarlet and twice encircling it as in A. melanoxylon.
 
 
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Plant Characteristics
Habit   tree

Height: ⇕ 15 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15. to 50 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.
Width: ⇔ 12 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Lifespan: ⌛ perennial
Bloom: ❀ early summer, mid summer, late summer, early fall, mid fall, late fall
Cultivation
Exposure: ☼ sun
Features: ✓ flowers
USDA Zones: 8 to 11
Flower features: ❀ orange, yellow
Scientific Names

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Acacia implexa is an Australian Acacia, used for furniture making. Its common name is Lightwood.


Read about Acacia implexa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Acacia implexa, Benth. A tall tree, 50 ft. high, with light green foliage and rough bark: phyll. falcate- lanceolate, acuminate, with a more or less hooked point, 4-7 in. long, 3/8-3/4in. wide, veins 3-5, with finer parallel veins between; no gland: fls. cream-yellow, in racemes much shorter than phyll., 40-50 in a head; peduncles 3/8in. long: pod curved, often like an interrogation point, light brown with nerve-like margin, more or less constricted and contracted between the seeds, 4-6 in. long, 1/4in. wide; seeds longitudinal; funicle club-shaped, folded once or twice at end of seed—Distinguished from A. melanoxylon by the more pointed and hooked phyll., while the funicle is cream-colored and folded at the end of the seed instead of being scarlet and twice encircling it as in A. melanoxylon. CH


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