September is the start of Spring here in Australia. When we checked in the middle of October only two little flowers were open on the whole tree. We investigated segments of seed pods and if you open them there can be lots of different colours. By Daniel M. Investigating seedpods. Our class is using magnifying glasses on seed pods.
Some seeds are black and green.
By Jemma B. Acacia saligna fruit BARK Making bark rubbings 1. Most of the bark on this tree is quite smooth, especially the young branches higher up. We could easily reach the smooth part to do this rubbing. When we made a rubbing on the rough part of the bark near the ground the crayon often did not touch the paper. The old bark near the ground is rough and split.