Acacia tetragonophylla
Acacia tetragonophylla, commonly known as curara, kurara or dead finish, is a tree in the family Fabaceae that is endemic to arid and semi-arid parts of central and western Australia. Description Curara grows as a tall shrub or small tree up to a height of and has an intricate and often straggly habit with glabrous branchlets. Like most Acacia species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are slender and needle-like with a length of and a width of . When young they are soft and pliable, but as they mature they become hard, rigid and very sharp. The glabrous phyllodes are formed in groups of two to six on dwarf, knotty and lateral branchlets or singly on new shoots. The phyllodes have a slender linear shape ending in a sharp point and are mostly pentagonal to compressed in cross-section with five to seven prominent nerves. In Western Australia it blooms between May and October producing yellow flowers. The flowers are yellow, and held in spherical clusters. The pods are papery, up to eight centimetres long and about five millimetres wide. Distribution It occurs on floodplains and along watercourses in arid and semi-arid areas throughout Western Australia, South Australia,