December 2011
From my brother I received a lot of Acacia-pictures from his trip to Ethiopia in October 2011.

 November 2011
Australian Acacias are planted all over the world for their beautiful flowers in winter and for their wood. Recently I received pictures from the Carribean of Acacia auriculiformis and Acacia mangium.

September/ Octber 2011
It seems that the decision of Melbourne was not well accepted with the African representatives.
In Taxon 12 (Sept 2011), Gideon F. Smith and Estrela Figueiredo announce another move to retipify Acacia with its original type, the African Acacia scorpioides (L.) W. Wright (=A. nilotica Karst.) at the next congress in 5 years in China. Meanwhile they suggest to continue with the use of the genus Acacia s.l. – as if nothing has been changed.
August 2011
The XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne has decided on the Acacia name change options:
http://www.scienceinpublic.com.au/media-releases/the-acacia-debate
The decisions made 5 years ago in Vienna will remain. That means that the Australian Acacias (Wattles) will retain the genus Acacia. The African and American species will have to be renamed.

I will now start to change my website accordingly.

April/May 2011
The discussion on the future name of Acacias is heating up in view of the Botanical Congress in July in Melbourne: http://www.ibc2011.com/ . Will Australia keep the name for its wattles or will the decison of Vienna be reversed?
see also: http://christiankull.net/2011/05/10/the-acacia-name-change-%E2%80%93-botany-and-emotion/
A compromise was recently suggested by Mr. Brummitt from KEW: As far as I  understand, it means to keep the name Acacia for all former Genera (Super-genus: Acacia s.l.)and indicate the special genus in brackets. It has to be seen, if this new version finds a majority.

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