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Acacia xiphophylla

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Fabaceae

Scientific name
  
Acacia xiphophylla

Order
  
Fabales

Genus
  
Acacia

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Acacia xanthina, Acacia citrinoviridis, Acacia pruinocarpa, Acacia inaequilatera, Acacia murrayana

Acacia xiphophylla, commonly known as snakewood or snake-wood, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs on saline semi-arid land in the Gascoyne River and Ashburton catchments east and north of Carnarvon.

Snakewood grows as a spreading tree, usually with two or three main trunks. It can grow up to five metres high and eight metres wide. Like most Acacia species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are bluish grey in colour, and may be up to eight centimetres long and eight millimetres wide. The flowers are yellow, and held in cylindrical clusters about three centimetres long. The pods are up to twelve centimetres long and eight millimetres wide, and have constrictions between the seeds.

The wood of other trees with wavy grain or wavy coloration has also been called snakewood.

References

Acacia xiphophylla Wikipedia