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dispersal of seeds can also be influenced by animals and ants by either eating the seeds or moving seeds to their habitats. However the seeds are not fully dispersed till the seeds is removed from the legume (pods) which occurs from influences by a hot sun or a bushfire. Acacia's overall depend on animals and insects to reproduces and disperse seeds.
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gum was collected and eaten as snack or placed in water to make a flavored drink. Acacias were not only used as bush tucker but as wood for certain aboriginal tools for example hunting and fishing spears. Another use of these native shrubs/trees was for some medical treatments of headaches, fevers and colds.
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that very nutritious food sources that have unique tastes and provide high levels of protein, carbohydrates and fibre and low levels of fats. Acacia seeds are found to have chocolate-like taste and are best known for being an ingredient for making bread while roots were roasted before eating and the
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is found in New South Wales western plains e.g near white cliffs, The Sturt
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is a perennial plant species that relies on animals and insects to pollinate. This
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Acacias seeds, roots, and gum are types of aboriginal
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637:Playing with Fire native Foods.
584:"Pollination and seed Dispersal"
391:"Pollination and Seed Dispersal"
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643:Playing with fire Native Foods
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991:Taxa named by Joseph Maiden
617:"Aboriginal Use of Wattles"
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373:The Ecology of Plants
216:Occurrence data from
426:"Acacia Cana Maiden"
310:Uses and bush tucker
24:Cabbage-tree wattle
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565:"Acacia Background"
446:Harden, G. (2002).
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240:broad-leaved nealie
236:cabbage-tree wattle
658:"Species recovery"
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466:Kodela, P.
424:Barker, J.
349:Pedley, L.
316:bush tucker
303:Acacia cana
279:Acacia cana
268:Acacia cana
259:Acacia cana
254:Description
248:Mimosoideae
227:Acacia cana
193:Acacia cana
134:Subfamily:
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975:Categories
914:Plant List
598:2015-10-19
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331:References
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538:Birk, K.
264:phyllodes
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395:Acacias
234:or the
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118:Fabales
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200:Maiden
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108:Rosids
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