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Acacia is a common food source and host plant for butterflies of the genus Jalmenus. The imperial hairstreak, Jalmenus evagoras , feeds on at least 25 acacia species. [ 35 ] Many reptiles feed on the sap, such as the native house gecko in Australia. [ 36 ]
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.
0.01% Nicotine was reported from leaves, but identity of the plant was not certain; [66] claims of DMT and NMT in the plant [67] require verification or a proper reference Acacia rigidula 0.025% alkaloids from leaves, including N-methyl-phenethylamine and N-methyl-tyramine (both tentatively identified). [ 14 ]
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.
Vachellia cornigera, commonly known as bullhorn acacia (family Fabaceae), is a swollen-thorn tree and myrmecophyte native to Mexico and Central America.The common name of "bullhorn" refers to the enlarged, hollowed-out, swollen thorns (technically called stipular spines) that occur in pairs at the base of leaves, and resemble the horns of a steer.
Vachellia nilotica, more commonly known as Acacia nilotica, and by the vernacular names of gum arabic tree, [5] babul, [6] thorn mimosa, Egyptian acacia or thorny acacia, [7] is a flowering tree in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.