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Acacia dealbata, the silver wattle, blue wattle [3] or mimosa, [4] ... It is a fast-growing evergreen tree or shrub growing up to 30 ... and the seeds to make flour. ...
Mimosa divaricata Jacq. Lysiloma divaricatum is a flowering tree native to Mexico and Central America. Common names include mauto, quitaz , and tepemesquite in Mexico, quebracho in Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua, and quebracho negro, tepemisque , and yaje in El Salvador.
Several characters of the foliage, seeds, seed pods, pollen, and stipules are shared by the two tribes. [32] The flower morphology of Acacia s.l. has characteristics in common with the genera Leucaena , Piptadenia , and Mimosa (tribe Mimoseae) and Enterolobium and Lysiloma (tribe Ingeae).
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The capsule contains four cells, each with a viable or non-viable seed. The fleshy aril needs to be removed, as it contains agents which inhibit seed germination. Regular watering and drying of the capsules seems to improve germination results. Germination is slow and unreliable, taking between six months and four years.
The tree produces spiky green fruits about the size of a golf ball, which turn brown and drop off the tree over an extended period beginning in fall and continuing over the winter.
Mimosa scabrella is a tree in the family Fabaceae. It is very fast-growing and it can reach a height of 15 m (49 ft) tall in only 3 years. [ 2 ] Its trunk is about 0.1–0.5 m (3.9–19.7 in) in diameter. [ 3 ]
Mimosa leucocephala Lam. Mimosa leucophala Lam. Leucaena leucocephala is a small fast-growing mimosoid tree native to southern Mexico and northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) [ 1 ] [ 4 ] and is now naturalized throughout the tropics including parts of Asia.