Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Acacia mangium
a-KAY-see-uh or uh-KAY-shuh -- meaning: thorny, spiny
man-JEE-um -- pronunciation / meaning not known to me
commonly known as: black wattle, brown salwood, forest mangrove, hickory wattle, mangium wattle, sabah salwood
Native to: Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
... phyllodes 5-10 cm broad, 2-4 times as long as broad, dark green, chartaceous when dry ... phyllodes have (3-)4 longitudinal main nerves which join on the dorsal margin at the base of the phyllode, secondary nerves fine and inconspicuous.
... flowers in loose spikes to 10 cm long, solitary or paired in the upper axils.
References: RNGR • World Agroforestry Centre
Tags: Fabaceae pea family legume family bean family tropical perennial evergreen tree Acacia mangium Mangium montanum arr black wattle brown salwood forest mangrove hickory wattle kra thin tepa krathin-thepha maber mange mangge hutan mangium wattle nak sabah salwood tongke hutan zamorano flowering trees beautiful flowering trees Acacia qrfp marginalarfp
Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Acacia mangium
a-KAY-see-uh or uh-KAY-shuh -- meaning: thorny, spiny
man-JEE-um -- pronunciation / meaning not known to me
commonly known as: black wattle, brown salwood, forest mangrove, hickory wattle, mangium wattle, sabah salwood
Native to: Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
... phyllodes 5-10 cm broad, 2-4 times as long as broad, dark green, chartaceous when dry ... phyllodes have (3-)4 longitudinal main nerves which join on the dorsal margin at the base of the phyllode, secondary nerves fine and inconspicuous.
... flowers in loose spikes to 10 cm long, solitary or paired in the upper axils.
References: RNGR • World Agroforestry Centre
Tags: Fabaceae pea family legume family bean family tropical perennial evergreen tree Acacia mangium Mangium montanum arr black wattle brown salwood forest mangrove hickory wattle kra thin tepa krathin-thepha maber mange mangge hutan mangium wattle nak sabah salwood tongke hutan zamorano Acacia qrfp marginalarfp
Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Acacia mangium
a-KAY-see-uh or uh-KAY-shuh -- meaning: thorny, spiny
man-JEE-um -- pronunciation / meaning not known to me
commonly known as: black wattle, brown salwood, forest mangrove, hickory wattle, mangium wattle, sabah salwood
Native to: Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
... single-stemmed, medium to tall evergreen, spreading tree ... bole often straight, to over half the total tree height ... branchlets, phyllodes and petioles glabrous or slightly scurfy ... bark in older trees is rough, hard, fissured near the base, greyish-brown to dark brown, inner bark pale brown.
... grows vigourously ... achieves almost 23 m with in first 9 years.
References: RNGR • World Agroforestry Centre
Tags: Fabaceae pea family legume family bean family tropical perennial evergreen tree Acacia mangium Mangium montanum arr black wattle brown salwood forest mangrove hickory wattle kra thin tepa krathin-thepha maber mange mangge hutan mangium wattle nak sabah salwood tongke hutan zamorano