Australian blackwood

A graceful evergreen tree possibly reaching 12m. Its 'leaves' are leathery grey-green and variable in shape. Some are ferny in shape with a slender stem, some have a saml leaf where the stem is flattened, but generally they are just the leaf stem alone, flattend into a 'leaf' longer than they are wide with a slight curve. In spring, the flowers are clouds of small, fluffy white to pale yellow flowers which may develop into 10cm brown, twisted-ribbon seed pods. The bark is grey with dark fissures