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Acacia farnesiana

(Acacia Jaune)

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Acacia Jaune, Acacia Odorant, Aroma, Aroma Amarilla, Aromo, Aweet Acadia, Ban Baburi, Bayahonda, Cambr, Carambomba, Cashia, Cassie, Cassie Flower, Cassie Jaune, Cassis Commun, Cassy, Cuj, CujÁ Aroma, Dead Finish, Dead-Finish, Debena, Ellington Curse, Epinard, Espino Blanco, Espino Ruco, Esponjeira, Farnese Wattle, Fleur De Cassier, Fragrant Acacia, Huisache, Kandaroma, Klu, Klu Bush, Mimosa, Mimosa Bush, Mimosa Wattle, Needle Bush, North-West Curara, Oki, Opopanax, Opoponax, Pauj, Perfume Acacia, Popinac, Prickly Mimosa Bush, Prickly Moses, Rayo, Sheep's Briar, Small's Acacia, Sponge Tree, Sponge Wattle, Sweet Acacia, Sweet Cassia, Tekaibakoa, Texas Huisache, Thorny Acacia, Thorny Feather-Wattle, Titima, Vaivai Vakavotona, Vaivaivakavotona, Wild Briar, Zakasya

Common Names in French:

Acacia Jaune, Cassie, Cassie Ancienne, Fleur De Cassie

Common Names in German:

Antillenakazie, Westindische Akazie

Common Names in Hawaiian:

Gandharii, Gandhio Babul, Gandila Bamura, Kolu, Wilayati Kikar

Common Names in Hindi:

Babool, Belaiti Kikar, Belati Babool, Gand Babool, ग॑ध बब्ल, बब्ल, बेलाटी बब्ल, िबलायती िककर

Common Names in Informal Latinized N:

Acacia Jaune, Acacia Odorant

Common Names in Italian:

Gaggia

Common Names in Malagasy:

Dintringahy, Hatika, Ramiarimbony, Roy-Cassy, Roy-Vazaha

Common Names in Portuguese:

Esponja, Esponjeira

Common Names in Spanish:

Aromo, Bayahonda, Carambuco, Coromo, Espino Blanco, Espino Cavan, Huisache Dulce, Mimosa, Popine

Common Names in Thai:

คำดารา

Description

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Subfamily Mimosoideae

Mostly trees or shrubs . Leaves mostly bipinnate. Corolla usually not showy, actinomorphic , sympetalous , the lobes valvate . Stamens 10-numerous, often monadelphous , showy. Pollen released in monads , tetrads , or polyads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) present. [Carr]

Genus Acacia

Trees , shrubs , rarely herbs, often prickly or spinose . Leaves bipinnate; leaflets small and numerous or leaves reduced to phyllodes; petiolar glands often present; stipules generally spinescent . Inflorescence cylindric spike or globose head ; peduncle solitary axillary or fasciculate or paniculate at the end of branches; bracts often two, scale like, situated on the peduncle at various levels. Flowers small, 3-5-merous, bisexual or plants polygamous. Calyx campanulate , dentate , lobed or polysepalous . Petals usually more or less united , rarely absent. Stamens indefinite, free or shortly and irregularly connate at the base ; anthers small, eglandular . Ovary sessile or stipitate , with 2 or more ovules. Fruit ovate to linear , straight, arcuate or contorted, membranous to woody, rarely articulated or moniliform . Seed large, with a filiform funicle or fleshy aril.

A genus with about 900 species; distributed mainly in tropics and subtropics, especially in Africa and Australia.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Deciduous. • Climbing: Not Climbing

Flowers: Bloom Period: January, February, March, April, May. • Flower Color: gold, yellow-orange

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 12-15' tall.

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[2]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 8-10' apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 8.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Acacia acicularis Willd. • Acacia farnesiana var. lenticellata (F. Muell.)bailey • Acacia indica (Poir.)desv. • Acacia lenticellata F. Muell. • Acacia minuta (M. E. Jones)r. M. Beauch. • Acacia minuta minuta (M. E. Jones)r. M. Beauch. • Farnesia odora Gasp. • Farnesiana odora Gasp. • Mimosa acicularis Poir. • Mimosa farnesiana L. • Mimosa indica Poir. • Mimosa suaveolens Salisb. • Pithecellobium acuminatum M. E. Jones • Pithecellobium minutum M. E. Jones • Popanax farnesiana (L.)raf. • Poponax farnesiana (L.) Raf. • Poponax farnesiana (L.)raf. • Vachellia farnesiana Wight & Arn.

Notes

Publishing author : Willd. Publication : Species Plantarum ed. 4, 4(2) 1806 (Apr. 1806)

Basionym author: (L.)

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Acacia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 497 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. abyssinica (Nyanga Flat-Top) · A. acanthoclada (Harrow Wattle) · A. acanthoclada var. glaucescens (Harrow Wattle) · A. acinacea (Gold Dust Wattle) · A. aculeaticarpa (Catclaw Mimosa) · A. aculeatissima (Thin-Leaf Wattle) · A. acuminata (Raspberry Jam) · A. acuminata acuminata (Raspberry Jam) · A. adunca (Wallangarra Wattle) · A. alata (Winged Wattle) · A. albicorticata (Aromo) · A. albizioides (Climbing Wattle) · A. alpina (Alpine Wattle) · A. amblygona (Fan Wattle) · A. amoena (Boomerang Wattle) · A. ampliceps (Acacia) · A. ancistrophylla var. lissophylla (Dwarf Myall) · A. anegadensis (Blackbrush Wattle) · A. aneura (Mulga) · A. angustissima (Carboncillo) · A. angustissima var. angustissima (Prairie Acacia) · A. angustissima var. chisosiana (Carboncillo) · A. angustissima var. hirta (Prairie Acacia) · A. angustissima var. shrevei (Carboncillo) · A. angustissima var. suffrutescens (Carboncillo) · A. angustissima var. texensis (Carboncillo) · A. anomala (Chittering Grass Wattle) · A. anthochaera (Kimberly's Wattle) · A. aphylla (Leafless Rock Wattle) · A. applanata (Grass Wattle) · A. araneosa (Balcanoona Wattle) · A. argutifolia (East Barrens Wattle) · A. argyrodendron (Blackwood) · A. argyrophylla (Silver Mulga) · A. aroma (Aromita) · A. aroma var. huarango (Aromita) · A. aspera (Rough Wattle) · A. atramentaria (Brea) · A. aulacocarpa (New Guinea Wattle) · A. auricoma (Nyalpilintji Wattle) · A. auriculiformis (Auri) · A. auripila (Rudall River Myall) · A. ausfeldii (Whipstick Cinnamon Wattle) · A. baeuerlenii (Wattle Shrub) · A. baileyana (Bailey Acacia) · A. baileyana 'Purpurea' (Baileys Purple Acacia) · A. bakeri (Baker's Wattle) · A. balsamea (Balsam Wattle) · A. barakulensis (Waaje Wattle) · A. barattensis (Baratta Wattle) · A. barringtonensis (Barrington Wattle) · A. basedowii (Basedow's Wattle) · A. baueri (Tiny Wattle) · A. baxteri (Baxter's Wattle) · A. beckleri (Barrier Range Wattle) · A. berlandieri (Berlandier Acacia) · A. betchei (Red-Tip Wattle) · A. bidwillii (Corkwood Wattle) · A. biflora (Two-Flowered Acacia) · A. binervata (Two-Veined Hickory) · A. binervia (Coast Myall) · A. bivenosa (Two Nerved Wattle) · A. blaxellii (Blaxell's Wattle) · A. boormanii (Snowy River Wattle) · A. borleae (Sticky Acacia) · A. brachybotrya (Grey Mulga) · A. brevispica dregeana (Prickly Thorn) · A. browniana (Brown's Wattle) · A. brownii (Heath Wattle) · A. brunioides (Brown Wattle) · A. burbidgeae (Burbidge's Wattle) · A. burrowii (Burrow's Wattle) · A. buxifolia (Box-Leaved Wattle) · A. buxifolia buxifolia (Box-Leaved Wattle) · A. buxifolia pubiflora (Box-Leaved Wattle) · A. bynoeana (Bynoe's Wattle) · A. caerulescens (Buchan Blue Wattle) · A. caesiella (Blue Bush) · A. caffra (Cat Thorn) · A. calamifolia (Wallowa) · A. calcicola (Northern Myall) · A. cambagei (Stinking Wattle) · A. cana (Broad-Leaved Nealie) · A. cardiophylla (West Wyalong Wattle) · A. carneorum (Purple-Wood Wattle) · A. catechu (Black Cutch) · A. catechu var. oligosperma (Black Catechu) · A. catechu var. sundra (Cutch Tree) · A. caven (Aromita) · A. caven var. caven (Roman-Cassie) · A. celastrifolia (Celastrus-Leaved Acacia) · A. centralis (Guache) · A. chalkeri (Chalker's Wattle) · A. cheelii (Motherumbah) · A. chinchillensis (Chinchilla Wattle) · A. chippendalei (Chippendale's Wattle) · A. chisholmii (Chisholm's Wattle) · A. choriophylla (Cinnecord) · A. chundra (Red Cutch) · A. citrinoviridis (River Jam)

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Footnotes

  1. "Acacia". in Flora of Pakistan. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Mean = 410.290 meters (1,346.096 feet), Standard Deviation = 856.910 based on 1,032 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-07-14