Stiff leaf wattle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Acacia
Species:
A. obtusifolia
Binomial name
Acacia obtusifolia
Range of Acacia obtusifolia
Synonyms[1]

Acacia obtusifolia, commonly known as stiff-leaf wattle or blunt-leaf wattle, is a perennial tree in subfamily Mimosoideae of family Fabaceae.

Description

Acacia obtusifolia is an upright or spreading perennial tree which grows from 1.5m to 8m in height and it is native to Australia. It is closely related to Acacia longifolia. Acacia obtusifolia can be distinguished by it having phyllode margins which are resinous, it usually blooms later in the year and it has paler flowers than Acacia longifolia.[2] It flowers usually from December through February. Some populations of Acacia obtusifolia can survive winters to −6 °C and possibly a light snow, however plants from populations in areas that are frost free such as the coastal ranges of Northern NSW are susceptible to cold and will be killed by frosts lower than −3 °C. These populations avoid the valley floors and occur mainly on sandstone ridges well above the frost line.

Phytochemicals

Teracacidin, a flavan-3,4-diol, can be isolated from A. obtusifolia heartwood.[3]

No formal scientific publishing of phytochemistry, several chromatographs show 0.3% alkaloid consisting 2:1 N-Methyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, plus trace betacarbolines,[4] another found gramine. It is highly variable in composition, sometimes devoid of tryptamines. Also findings of 5-MeO-DMT, DMT and bufotenine.[5] Some internet sources claim a 0.45% average dimethyltryptamine in the bark and 0.3% in the dried young leaves. Similarly, late 90s internet researchers have figures ranging from 0.4% to 0.5% in the dried material, noting there to be some variability.[6]

References

  1. ↑ ILDIS LegumeWeb
  2. ↑ PlantNET Flora Online
  3. ↑ Flavan derivatives. XIX. Teracacidin and isoteracacidin from Acacia obtusifolia and Acacia maidenii heartwoods; Phenolic hydroxylation patterns of heartwood flavonoids characteristic of sections and subsections of the genus Acacia. JW Clark-Lewis and I Dainis, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 20(10), pp. 2191–2198, doi:10.1071/CH9672191
  4. ↑ 'E' (pseud.), Entheogen Review (journal) 1996 ed. J. de Korne; Nen, privately commissioned test at Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia, 2000 [reported at EGA conference, Victoria 2011]
  5. ↑ Poland National Herbarium http://herbarium.0-700.pl/Akacje.html (various internet sources, link dead)
  6. ↑ Acacia and Entheogenic Tryptamines Archived 1 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
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