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Acacia farnesiana

(Thorny Feather-Wattle)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Acacia Jaune, Acacia Odorant, Aroma, Aroma Amarilla, Aromo, Aweet Acadia, Ban Baburi, Bayahonda, Cambr¢n, Carambomba, Cashia, Cassie, Cassie Flower, Cassie Jaune, Cassis Commun, Cassy, Cujà Aroma, Cuj¡ 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:

ग॑ध बबà¥à¤², बबà¥à¤², बेलाटी बबà¥à¤², िबलायती िककर, Babool, Belaiti Kikar, Belati Babool, Gand Babool

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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Family Fabaceae

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]

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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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Acacia acicularis Willd.
  2. Acacia farnesiana var. lenticellata (F. Muell.)bailey
  3. Acacia indica (Poir.)desv.
  4. Acacia lenticellata F. Muell.
  5. Acacia minuta (M. E. Jones)r. M. Beauch.
  6. Acacia minuta minuta (M. E. Jones)r. M. Beauch.
  7. Farnesia odora Gasp.
  8. Farnesiana odora Gasp.
  9. Mimosa acicularis Poir.
  10. Mimosa farnesiana L.
  11. Mimosa indica Poir.
  12. Mimosa suaveolens Salisb.
  13. Pithecellobium acuminatum M. E. Jones
  14. Pithecellobium minutum M. E. Jones
  15. Popanax farnesiana (L.)raf.
  16. Poponax farnesiana (L.) Raf.
  17. Poponax farnesiana (L.)raf.
  18. Vachellia farnesiana Wight & Arn.

Notes

Publishing author : Risso Publication : Fl. Nice, 166 Publishing author: Willd. Publication: Sp. Pl. iv . 1084 Publishing author: Benth. Publication: London J. Bot. v. (1846) 97 Publishing author: Isely Publication: in Sida, iii. 384 (1969), nom. nov.

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Rico M .L., 1994

Place of publication: Sp. pl. 4(2):1083. 1806

Name verified on 07-Jul-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 06-Aug-2002

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Acacia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2783 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. abbatiana · A. abbreviata · A. abietina · A. abrupta · A. abstergens · A. abyssinica (Nyanga Flat-Top) · A. abyssinica abyssinica · A. abyssinica calophylla · A. acanthaster · A. acanthocarpa · A. acanthoclada (Harrow Wattle) · A. acanthoclada acanthoclada · A. acanthoclada glaucescens · A. acanthoclada subsp. glaucescens · A. acanthoclada var. glaucescens (Harrow Wattle) · A. acantholoba · A. acanthophora · A. acanthophylla · A. acapulcensis · A. acatlensis · A. accola · A. acellerata · A. acicularis · A. acinacea (Round-Leaved Wattle) · A. acinacea 'Ruby Tips' · A. acinacea var. brevipedunculata · A. aciphylla · A. acoma · A. acradena · A. acradenia · A. acrionastes · A. acuaria · A. acuifera · A. aculeaticarpa (Catclaw Mimosa) · A. aculeatissima (Thin-Leaf Wattle) · A. aculeiformis · A. acuminata (Raspberry Jam) · A. acuminata acuminata (Raspberry Jam) · A. acuminata burkittii · A. acutangula · A. acutata · A. acutifolia · A. acutistipula · A. adansonii · A. adenanthera · A. adenantheroides · A. adenocalyx · A. adenocarpa · A. adenogonia · A. adenopa · A. adenophora · A. adenostylis · A. adhaerens · A. adherens · A. adiantoides · A. adinophylla · A. adnata · A. adoxa · A. adoxa var. adoxa · A. adoxa var. subglabra · A. adpressa · A. adstringens · A. adsurgens · A. adunca (Wallangarra Wattle) · A. aegyptiaca · A. aemula · A. aemula aemula · A. aemula muricata · A. aemula subsp. muricata · A. aestivalis · A. alata (Winged Wattle) · A. alata var. alata · A. alata var. biglandulosa · A. alata var. glabrata · A. alata var. platyptera · A. alata var. tetrantha · A. alaticaulis · A. alba · A. albescens · A. albicans · A. albicorticata (Espinillo Blanco) · A. albida · A. albizioides (Climbing Wattle) · A. albocorticata · A. alcockii · A. alemquerensis · A. alexandri · A. alleniana · A. allenii · A. alliacea · A. alocophylla · A. alpina (Alpine Wattle) · A. altiscandens · A. alvaroi · A. amabilis · A. amambayensis · A. amanda · A. amazonica · A. ambigua · A. amblygona (Fan Wattle)

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 27, 2008:

Identifiers

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: 7/1/2009