Acacia salicina

• (−)-7,8,3',4'-tetrahydroxyflavanone[8]
• 7,8,3',4'-tetrahydroxydihydroflavonol[8]
• 7,8,3',4'-tetrahydroxyflavonol[8]

Acacia salicina can be used to help stabilize riverbanks and other areas.[9]

The tree's foliage and seed pods are important fodder for livestock during dry periods, since the tree can withstand drought quite well.[9] Its foliage and pods compare quite poorly to other fodders with regard to digestibility by livestock. This affects its available nutritional value.[10] The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia’ records that "The leaves are eaten by stock. This is another tree which is rapidly becoming scarce, owing to the partiality of stock to it."[11]

The seeds are edible.[9]

Acacia salicina branches with seed pods

Acacia salicina is excellent for landscaping in dry areas.[9]

The bark has a high tannin content.[9]

Acacia salicina Bark

The wood is very hard and it is used in making fine furniture.[9] At one time, the tree's wood was used in the manufacture of axles for wagon wheels. Acacia salicina's wood burns nicely and makes good fuel.[9] Its calorific content is 18900kJ/kg dry mass.[10] The tree produces seed and timber for woodworking in as little as five years after planting.[12]

The bark has been traditionally put to use by Indigenous Australians as a toxin for fishing.[9] The leaves of A. salicina are thought to be psychoactive, since indigenous Australians "burn its leaves and smoke the ash to obtain a state of inebriation."[13]

The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia’ records that common names included "Native Willow" and "Broughton Willow" near the Broughton River in South Australia. It also records it was called "Cooba" or "Kooba" by Indigenous People in Western New South Wales and "Motherumba" by those on the Castlereagh River, New South Wales.[11]