Acacia
curvinervia is not uncommon but doesn't seem to have picked up a common
name, probably because it looks so 'generic' for a wattle.
It
is often found along roadsides as it seems to thrive after the soil has been
disturbed.
Most of it is short-lived like those pictured at 2 or 3 metres
high, but there are places where it grows to around 6 metres tall with stems
to 100m diameter.
The textbooks will tell you it flowers from May to July although I have
found it flowering as late as November like this specimen along the Beef road.
The timber in this 100mm specimen looks very similar to A.julifera but I
found it more workable once dry. Splitting it was all that was required to
stop it cracking to the heart.
Once dry, I found it machined nicely, sanded well and took a hard-wax oil
finish very nicely.
I had just enough diameter from the specimen above to turn a solid toothpick
dispenser which worked out quite well with the timber being just the right
weight for this type of project.
