Vachellia farnesiana

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Plant Characteristics
Lifespan: perennial
Origin: Mexico, C America
Cultivation
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Sunset Zones: 13-26
Scientific Names

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Read about Vachellia farnesiana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Vachellia farnesiana. (many synonyms). Much-branching shrub, 6-10ft.: stipules straight, slender, sometimes minute spines; pinnae 5-8 pairs; lfts. mostly 10-25 pairs, 1-2 lines long, narrow, linear, glabrous: peduncles 2 or 3 in the older axils; fl.-heads large, globular, deep yellow, very fragrant, pods almost terete, indehiscent, at length turgid and pulpy. Feb., March. Texas, Mex., Asia, Afr. and Austral. Grown in France for perfumery.—Its origin is probably American, but it is now naturalized in nearly every tropical country. It was intro. into the Hawaiian Isls. as an ornamental, but escaped from cult, and has now almost become a pest. A new variety of Vachellia farnesiana has been discovered which is more hardy than the type and grows more rapidly. It produces two crops of fls. a year, which makes it very lucrative for the making of perfumery. The pods are said to contain a tannin.CH


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Varieties

Common names includewp: Farnese Wattle, Dead Finish, Mimosa Wattle, Mimosa bush, Prickly Mimosa Bush, Prickly Moses, Needle Bush, North-west Curara, Sheep's Briar, Sponge Wattle, Sweet Acacia, Thorny Acacia, Thorny Feather Wattle, Wild Briar, Huisache, Cassie, Cascalotte, Cassic, Mealy Wattle, Popinac, Sweet Briar, Texas Huisache, Aroma, (Bahamas) Cashia, (Bahamas, USA) Opoponax, Cashaw, (Belize) Cuntich, (Jamaica) Cassie-flower, Cassie, Iron Wood, Cassie Flower, Honey-ball, Casha Tree, Casha, (Virgin Islands) Cassia, (Fiji) Ellington's Curse, Acacia farnesiana, Acacia leptophylla, Acacia acicularis, Acacia farnesiana var. lenticellata, Acacia indica, Acacia lenticellata, Acacia minuta, Acacia minuta subsp. minuta, Farnesia odora, Farnesiana odora, Mimosa acicularis, Mimosa farnesiana, Mimosa indica, Mimosa suaveolens, Pithecellobium acuminatum, Pithecellobium minutum, Popanax farnesiana, Poponax farnesiana

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