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Acacia fasciculifera seedling in the transitional stage between pinnate leaves and phyllodes. The leaves of acacias are compound pinnate in general. In some species, however, more especially in the Australian and Pacific Islands species, the leaflets are suppressed, and the leaf-stalks become vertically flattened in order to serve the purpose of leaves.
Leatherleaf is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora ledi. In ornamental usage, leatherleaf is widely used by florists as a filler green in bouquets and arrangements. Ethnobotanically, the plant has usage as "sun-tea," a drink in which dried or fresh leaves are steeped in cool water in a sunny location.
Vachellia farnesiana, also known as Acacia farnesiana, and previously Mimosa farnesiana, commonly known as sweet acacia, [12] huisache, [13] casha tree, or needle bush, is a species of shrub or small tree in the legume family, Fabaceae. Its flowers are used in the perfume industry.
Acacia: acacias and wattles; Acacia albida: winter thorn acacia Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Acacia aneura: mulga acacia Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Acacia angustissima: prairie acacia Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea' purple-leaf acacia Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Acacia choriophylla: cinnecord Fabaceae ...
SEM image of Acacia pollen (about 50 microns long). There are 1085 species of Acacia accepted by Plants of the World Online as at December 2024, with species native to Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, Hawaii and the Mascarene Islands, and introduced to other countries.
The shrub has terete branchlets that are covered in short stiff hairs and subpersistent stipules. Phyllodes shallowly to strongly incurved or sigmoid, like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The leather evergreen phyllodes have a length of 3 to 7.5 cm (1.2 to 3.0 in) and a diameter of around 1 mm (0.039 in) and are ...
Acacia, commonly known as wattles [3] [4] or acacias, is a genus of about 1,084 species of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Australasia , but is now reserved for species mainly from Australia, with others from New ...
Acacia aneura, commonly known as mulga, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland Australia. It is a variable shrub or small tree with flat, narrowly linear to elliptic phyllodes , cylindrical spikes of bright yellow flowers and more or less flat and straight, leathery pods .