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Acacia dealbata, the silver wattle, blue wattle [3] or mimosa, [4] is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is native to southeastern Australia and widely introduced in other warm climates.
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.
The Mimosoideae are a traditional subfamily of trees, herbs, lianas, and shrubs in the pea family that mostly grow in tropical and subtropical climates.They are typically characterized by having radially symmetric flowers, with petals that are twice divided (valvate) in bud and with numerous showy, prominent stamens.
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.
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 s.l. (pronounced / ə ˈ k eɪ ʃ ə / or / ə ˈ k eɪ s i ə /), known commonly as mimosa, acacia, thorntree or wattle, [2] is a polyphyletic genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae. It was described by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773 based on the African species Acacia nilotica.
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 ]
In its original description the Mimosa lebbeck was a large Acacia tree that grew in Egypt. [15] George Bentham placed the species in its present genus , but other authors believed that the plant described by Linnaeus was the related Albizia kalkora as described by Prain (based on the Mimosa kalkora of William Roxburgh ), and erroneously ...