Acacia victoriae commonly known as Gundabluie or Bardi bush is a shrub or tree native to Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It grows 2–5 m, sometimes 9 m tall. It has spines 2–12 mm in length.

Subspecies:
A. victoriae subsp. arida Pedley

Uses

A. victoriae is the primary species used to produce "wattle seed" in popular bushfood

Bushfood

Bushfood traditionally relates to any food native to Australia and used as sustenance by the original inhabitants, the Australian Aborigines, but it is a reference to any native fauna/flora that is used for culinary and/or medicinal purposes regardless of which continent or culture it originates...

 cuisine. It is typically roasted, and has a hazlenut-coffee like flavor, being used as a spice

Spice

A spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark, or vegetative substance used in nutritionally insignificant quantities as a food additive for flavor, color, or as a preservative that kills harmful bacteria or prevents their growth. It may be used to flavour a dish or to hide other flavours...

 or as a coffee-like beverage.

The leaves can also be used as a life-saving forage

Fodder

Fodder or animal feed is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock such as cattle, goats, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. Most animal feed is from plants but some is of animal origin...

 for livestock

Livestock

Livestock refers to one or more domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber and labor. The term "livestock" as used in this article does not include poultry or farmed fish; however the inclusion of these, especially poultry, within the meaning...

 during times of drought

Drought

A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation. It can have a substantial impact on the ecosystem and agriculture of the affected region...

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The cytotoxic triterpenoid saponins Avicin D and Avicin G have been isolated from Acacia victoriae seed pods and have been studied as possible anticancer agents.

Alkaloids incl. 5methoxy-dimethyltryptamine present in bark/leaves.