I live in Perth, I'm looking for some plants with the good alkaloids - I plan on collecting a small amount of Pyllodes as it is more renewable and less harmful to the sacred plants and just enough for a sacred ceremony or 2 :smile: See next post - hopefully I've found acuminate

Is the acacia Acuminata aka raspberry jam tree the only naturally growing good yield source around Perth?

I've heard phalaris and phragmites do contain some yummy alkaloids but the yields are not good and there have been conflicting reports?

To ID the plant correctly it seems like I need to wait for the flowering season to start right? there's quite a few similar acacia's around but the flowers are different shape (I found a plant recently that the leaves and plant looked quite interesting however I found a seed pod and I don't think I've got the right variety - the flowers seems to be the give away for correct identification right?

I am buying several acuminata plants and will be planting them but it will be years before there's enough leaf for me to use

I hope someone can help with ID suggestions for non flowering times or alternatives to acuminata that may be easy to find around Perth


I dont' want to buy bark online (or at all really as it damages the plant) - I would love to source some from nature in a responsible manner to enhance the pleasure of the ceremony :smile:

I believe I found some Acuminata, can someone ID please? without the flowers being more developed I'm not very confident.

There's several people here that have had good extractions of A acuminate, whats the best tek (ease and decent yields)? an A/B (with salt?) is there a preference for yields with different A/B teks to get a better yield with acuminate?

Hi,Perth Guy. The Phyllodes look right but the bark on that huge tree looks all wrong, but you can test it, EZ Test kits. but you Wont find many planted by the council in Perth Mate. Need to look east away from the coast.

Regards G

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that bark is spot on bro.
you just havnt seen enough variations of acuminata .
thats sweet as bro,

EVEN THE FENCEPOST IS ACUMINATA BRO

and gowpen.
thats a small tree bro.
we got a tree that was to big for two men to link arms around by about 2 feet bro.
falen over ,,,m!!!
130 kgs of bark and 85 kgs of phyllodes of one tree for free bro...!!!
fell over in a storm cuz.
there are huge trees every where.

OM MANI PADME MUM