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The tree produces spiky green fruits about the size of a golf ball, which turn brown and drop off the tree over an extended period beginning in fall and continuing over the winter.
The compressed a linear seed pods that form after flowering are barely constricted between each of the seeds. The pods are 2 to 8 cm (0.79 to 3.15 in) in length and have a width of 3 to 5 mm (0.12 to 0.20 in) and have quite thin valves. The elliptic shaped seeds are around 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in) in length and have a filamentous funicle ...
The bush is also full of long spines. It usually flowers between August and November [4] producing an axillary flower-spike with small, bright yellow spherical flower heads and the fruits are brown pods 4 to 7 centimetres (1.6 to 2.8 in) long. The hard black seeds within have an oblong shape and are about 6 mm (0.236 in) in length and half as wide.
An Acacia-like 14 cm (5.5 in) long fossil seed pod has been described from the Eocene of the Paris Basin. [28] Acacia-like fossil pods under the name Leguminocarpon are known from late Oligocene deposits at different sites in Hungary. Seed pod fossils of †Acacia parschlugiana and †Acacia cyclosperma are known from Tertiary deposits in ...
The pods are raised over and constricted between seeds and have a length of up to 20 cm (7.9 in) and a width of 5 to 10 mm (0.2 to 0.4 in) with longitudinal nerves. The soft, dull, brown seeds within the pods are arranged longitudinally and have an oblong or broadly elliptic shape.
Acacia victoriae, commonly known as elegant wattle, bramble wattle, prickly wattle, gundabluey, [2] gundabluie or bardi bush, is a shrub-like tree native to Australia. [1] There is a single subspecies: A. victoriae subsp. arida Pedley [ 1 ]
Acacia pulchella in Glen Forrest Acacia pulchella seed pods Acacia pulchella , commonly known as prickly moses [ 2 ] or western prickly moses , [ 3 ] is a shrub in the family Fabaceae . Endemic to Western Australia , it is one of the most common shrubs of the bushland around Perth and in the Darling Range .
The tree and the cotton-like fluff obtained from its seed pods are commonly known in English as kapok, a Malay-derived name which originally applied to Bombax ceiba, a native of tropical Asia. [3] In Spanish-speaking countries the tree is commonly known as " ceiba " and in French-speaking countries as fromager .