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Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Acacia mangium a-KAY-see-uh or uh-KAY-shuh -- meaning: thorny, spiny man-JEE-um -- pronunciation / meaning not known to me commonly known as: black wattle, brown salwood, forest mangrove, hickory wattle, mangium wattle, sabah salwood Native to: Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea ... single-stemmed, medium to tall evergreen, spreading tree ... bole often straight, to over half the total tree height ... branchlets, phyllodes and petioles glabrous or slightly scurfy ... bark in older trees is rough, hard, fissured near the base, greyish-brown to dark brown, inner bark pale brown. ... grows vigourously ... achieves almost 23 m with in first 9 years. References: RNGR • World Agroforestry Centre Date 26 December 2007, 12:43 Source Sabah Salwood Author Dinesh Valke from Thane, India