Wow that's an impressive Acacia. I've never seen one like that before. Good to see that it's fairly old as well.MikeK wrote: βFebruary 28th, 2020, 7:23 am Here's a (pretty ordinary) pic of an A. longfolia at the central coast show last year. I believe it's around 40 years old
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I'm growing a few A. sophorae (aka Acacia longifolia subsp. sophorae) from tubestock. Haven't done much root pruning yet, but no issues with back-budding. One in particular was completely stripped by a possum (to a trunk with nothing left, even branches were chewed off ) I almost threw it in the bin thinking it was a goner, but moved to a more 'possum resistant' location and it recovered in about a month or so, with lots of new growth all over the trunk (no reduction in leaf size from the 'defoliation' though)
Sounds like your Acacia is pretty hardly. I have a A. Dealbata I collected from a fall tree last winter and it buds back like crazy.
Thanks for sharing Mike.