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18 Blackwood

Acacia melanoxylon

Habitat: High rainfall forests
Season: Spring - Summer flowering

The fine hard wood of this wattle made strong spear-throwers, boomerangs, clubs and shields in parts of Victoria.
People soaked the bark in water to bathe painful joints. The inner bark was used to make string.
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Leaves, flowers and seed pod of Blackwood.
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Returning boomerang made by Laddie Tinberry of Huskisson, NSW in 1990. The timber used is Blackwood.


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