Botanical name: Acacia elata    Family: Mimosaceae (Touch-me-not family)
Synonyms: Racosperma elatum

Cedar Wattle is a tree to 20 m tall, bark deeply fissured at base, dark brown to black; branchlets round, hairy when young. Leaves are carried on leaf-stalks 2.5-9 cm long. Leaf axis is 3-22 cm long, sidestalks usually 3-7 pairs, 7-23 cm long; leaflets 8-22 pairs, lanceshaped, usually 2-5 cm long, 0.3-1.3 cm wide, appressed-hairy, becoming hairless. Flowers are borne in panicles or racemes, carried on flower-cluster-stalks 2-11 mm long, yellow-hairy. Flower-heads are spherical, 30-55-flowered, 7-10 mm across, pale yellow or cream-colored. Pods are straight, flat, straight-sided or slightly constricted between seeds, 4-17.5 cm long, 9-15 mm wide, firmly papery to leathery. Cedar Wattle is native to E. New South Wales in Australia, cultivated in India. It is now naturalized in India, specifically in the Nilgiri and Palni hills.

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