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Acacia implexa, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#468 most planted

Acacia implexa

Lightwood · also Hickory wattle, Broadleaf wattle, Screw-pod wattle

1,958
trees mapped
0.02%
of all named trees
1
city
1.9 in
median trunk (5 cm, 1,738 measured)

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Acacia implexa, commonly known as lightwood or hickory wattle, is a fast-growing Australian tree. Its timber is valued for furniture making due to its finish and strength, and its foliage was historically used for pulp and cloth dye.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Melbourne · Australia
    1,958—1.9 in

No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.

Traits

Growth rate
Fast

Trunk diameters across every city: median 1.9 in, mean 2.3 in, 90th percentile 3.8 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Other Acacia in the catalogue

35 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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