Lancewood
Australia is the land of the gum tree. Eucalypts dominate forest and woodland close to where most people live but there are vast areas where it is too dry for eucalypts.
The main trees in these areas are hardy wattles and casuarinas. Lancewood * (Acacia Shirleyi) is one of these wattles.
Lancewood is a tree about ten metres tall with a conspicuously dense, dark green crown. It occurs in the semi-arid zone of northern Australia, in the Northern Territory and Queensland.
