18 Blackwood
Acacia melanoxylon
Habitat: High rainfall forestsSeason: Spring - Summer flowering
The fine hard wood of this wattle made strong spear-throwers, boomerangs, clubs and shields in parts of Victoria.
People soaked the bark in water to bathe painful joints. The inner bark was used to make string.
![Acacia melanoxylon](601-18a.gif)
Leaves, flowers and seed pod of Blackwood.
![boomerang](601-18b.gif)
Returning boomerang made by Laddie Tinberry of Huskisson, NSW in 1990. The timber used is Blackwood.