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Leguminosae
Common names
Dead finish.
Description
Shrub or small tree growing in some areas to a height of nearly
13 m. Bark dark grey, dry, deeply furrowed and broken up into rough blocks;
leaves deep, dull green, fernlike; flowers pale yellow, in balls; pods
about 7.5 cm long and 1 cm wide. It grows in the 500- to 750-mm rainfall
belt and reaches its best development in the central highlands in Queensland,
Australia. It is common on sandy or loamy, often gravelly, soils, or in
shallow soils overlying basalt. Leaves are eaten readily by stock but are
usually shed during the dry season, a characteristic that makes the tree
very useful as a supplementary fodder during normal dry seasons but useless
for feeding in a real drought (Everist, 1969).
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