Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Acacia auriculiformis A. Cunn ex Benth
Family Name	Mimosaceae
Common Name	Ear leaf Acacia, Ear-pod Wattle, Papuan Wattle and Auri, Northern Black Wattle
Tamil Name	கத்தி கருவேல்
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	Indonesia, New Guinea, Northern Australia
Botanical Distribution	Habit: evergreen tree, aerial, erect, cylindrical, branched, solid, bark grey-brown. Leaves: Bipinnate, which are coriaceous, obliquely elliptic, pointed at both ends, nerves parallel, slightly curved or sickle-shaped. Flowers: flowers in dense rigid spikes. yellow, fragrant, complete, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite. Calyxcampanulate. Corolla yellow, tubular, insignificant. Androecium consists of many stamens, exerted. Fruits: Lomentum, pods much twisted with wavy margin, at first green, becoming intricately coiled and almost woody when ripe, pods split open on the tree. Seeds: Black, Shining
Flowering and Fruiting	March to December but more in September to October.
Key Compounds	Methoxyl, uronic acid, methylglucuronic acid, glucuronic acid, galactose, arabinose, and rhamnose.
Medicinal Use	To treat aches, pains and sore eyes.
At the Campus	Front of the pyramid