For an abelian group $Gamma$, a $Gamma$-labelled graph is a graph whose vertices are labelled by elements of $Gamma$. We prove that a certain collection of edge sets of a $Gamma$-labelled graph forms a delta-matroid, which we call a $Gamma$-graphic delta-matroid, and provide a polynomial-time algorithm to solve the separation problem, which allows us to apply the symmetric greedy algorithm of Bouchet to find a maximum weight feasible set in such a delta-matroid. We present two algorithmic applications on graphs; Maximum Weight Packing of Trees of Order Not Divisible by $k$ and Maximum Weight $S$-Tree Packing. We also discuss various properties of $Gamma$-graphic delta-matroids.
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