Tasmanian blackwood - Acacia melanoxylon ( edit )

Botany
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Sub-family: Mimosoideae
(subfam & crops)
Species: Acacia melanoxylon
Common name: Tasmanian blackwood

Vertical photograph ( אד )

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Origin
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Southern Australia
(other crops from this region )

Uses

Main use:
timber
Harvest method:
total removing
Shelf life:
very long shelf life
Yield first season:
inapplicable
Yield top season:
20 meter/30 years
Parameter Concerning part Quality Crop's name Proportion Top-50
Edibility
no part
inedible
Medicinal
wood
low
 2,6-Dimethoxybenzoqu
5 pmm
8 ppm
 medicals
Lipids wood
(no extraction method
)
inapplicable
-
0.5%
1.0%
 liphids
Apiculture:
very good
 honey
Fruit:
inedible
 fruits
Nut:
inedible
 nuts
Fodder:
low
 fodder
Wood stem / wood
very good
Australian blackwood
 650ρ 670ρ timber
Fuel: stem / wood 5 credits 4,700 kcal/kg fuelwood
Minor uses:








  • fertilization
  • timber
  • fodder
  • fuel
  • apiculture

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Plant Details
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Crown
Parameter Value Unit Top-50
Height:
35
 m tallest
Crown width:
25
 m widest
Planting distance:
600
 cm
Row distance:
600
 cm
Growing speed:
medium
 fastest
Shade tolerance:
partial shade
 umbra

Roots
Parameter Value Top-50
RootSystem:
deep
 hexagon
MycorRhiza:
endo-mycorrhizae
 AM-plants
Symbiotic fungi:
  • Glomus intraradices
  • Glomus mosseae

 M-fungi
N-fixing:
able to
 N-plants
Symbiotic bacteria:
Bradyrhizobium ganzhouense
 N-bact.

Crop Timing
Parameter Value Unit Top-50
First flowering: 4 - 6 Years latest
Soonest commercial removal:
40
 Years fastest
Lifespan:
100
 Years oldest
InterCropModel(ICM):
- No ICM -

Regeneration
Parameter Value Top-50
Flower morphology: hermaphroditic
 specials
Pollinators:
bees
 specials
Allelopathy: allelopathic resists
Abscission: evergreen specials
Invasiveness: a bit invasive weeds
Thorns: no thorns fencers

Environment
Parameter min optimal max Unit Top-50
Altitude: 1,500m 1900 m 2,300m meters above sea-level highest
Temperature: -6°C 6°C 19°C Celcius hardiest
Rainfall: 750 mm 1525 mm 2,300 mm mm/year (litres/m2) dryest
Soil-pH: 5.0 7.5 pH dryest
Soil-texture:
loam
Climate:
tropical

Seeds
Parameter Value Unit
Seed storage:
orthodox
Seed viability:
80
 months
Seed weight:
60,000
68,000
 seeds/kg

Tolerances
Parameter Value Top-50
Salt tolerance:
tolerant
 tolerants
Wind tolerance:
tolerant
 tolerants
Fire tolerance:
tolerant
 tolerants

Pests and Diseases
Pests:
  • Platypus
  • Platypus externe-dentatus
  • Platypus ratzenburgi
  • Amphipsalta zelandica
  • Dicranosterna semipunctata
  • Aenetus virescens

 Diseases:
Armillaria root rot

Propagation instruction
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  • (1) Store harvested seeds dry at room temperature
  • (2) Soak the seeds overnight in warm water before sowing.
  • (3) press the seeds twice its size in the soil soil.
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Additional Photos
Stem photo: Crop's photo:
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