black acacia

Book people mixed with movie people: Under a dense black acacia tree, the writer Amy Wilentz chatted with the television producer Nicole Yorkin; the historian Ed Larson rubbed elbows with the film producer Sean Daniel at the bar.

The ceilings in the family room are 15-feet high and the floors, which the Browns refinished, are all black acacia.

The black acacia, called at home in Australian woods, the "blackwood-tree," for its black heart-wood, is a familiar street and shade tree in California.

It is thought that the shittah and shittim wood of the Bible, of which Moses made the greater part of the tables, altars and planks of the tabernacle, was the same as the black acacia found in the deserts of Arabia and about Mount Sinai and the mountains which border on the Red Sea, and is so hard and solid as to be almost incorruptible.

Between the border poplar walk and the foss outside, there grew a single row of trees of a very different kind—the black acacia, a rare and singular tree, and of all our trees this one made the strongest and sharpest impression on my mind as well as flesh, pricking its image in me, so to speak.