Tree 4–15 m high, malodorous, spreading; crown moderately dense. Bark flaky, dark grey. Branchlets with a grey-white often flaking mealy bloom, glabrous or appressed-puberulous. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to linear-elliptic, narrowed at both ends, straight or recurved, 4–14 cm long, 3–10 (–15) mm wide, coriaceous, with surface features as on branchlets, glaucous, 1–3 veins more evident than the numerous closely parallel indistinct intervening ones. Inflorescences 4–10 (–20)-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–9 (–30) mm long, appressed-puberulous; peduncles (2–) 4–10 mm long, sparsely appressed-puberulous; heads globular, 3–5 mm diam., 12–25-flowered, golden. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free to ½-united; petals glabrous to appressed-puberulous. Pods narrowly oblong, ± straight, flat, to 13 cm long, 8–12 mm wide, chartaceous, coarsely reticulate, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, broadly elliptic to oblong, flattened, 5–9 mm long, soft, peripherally crested, dull, dark brown; funicle slightly arillate.
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An evergreen tree. It grows to 15 m high and spreads to 5 m across. The stem is erect. The bark is dark brown and with furrows. The branches hand down and are intertwined with each other. The leaves (phyllodes) are pale grey and are lance shaped. They are 3-14 cm long and 0.4-1 cm wide. The leaves have lines along them. In wet weather the leaves can have an unpleasant smell. The flowers are yellow balls. The flowers occur in small dense clusters. They have an unpleasant smell. The pods are brown. They are 6-7 cm long by 0.6-0.8 cm wide and flat. They are often curved or twisted.
It is a tropical plant. It grows in northern Australia. It suits medium to heavy soils. It requires an open sunny position. It can withstand wind, drought and frost. It is mostly in areas with a rainfall from 50 to 65 mm mostly in summer with long droughts in between.
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Tolerates a wide range of soils but occurs most commonly in dark cracking clay or loam, growing as scattered individuals or in dense, almost pure stands; at elevations up to 500 metres.
Tolerates a wide range of soils but occurs most commonly in dark cracking clay or loam, as scattered individuals or in dense, almost pure stands; at elevations up to 500 metres.
Tolerates a wide range of soils but occurs most commonly in dark cracking clay or loam, as scattered individuals or in dense, almost pure stands.
The uses and other features of Acacia cambagei are described in J.W. Turnbull (ed.), Multipurpose Australian Trees and Shrubs 120–121 (1986), D.J.E. Whibley & D.E. Symon, Acacias of South Australia 2nd edn, 234–235 (1992), J.C. Doran et al., in J.C. Doran & J.W. Turnbull (eds), Australian Trees and Shrubs: Species for Land Rehabilitation and Farm Planting in the Tropics 122–123 (1997) and D.J. Boland et al., Forest Trees of Australia 5th edn, 140–141 (2006). Uses include stock fodder, fuelwood, timber, furniture and carving (including ornaments), shade and shelter tree, apiculture and land rehabilitation.
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