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|familia=Fabaceae
|familia=Fabaceae
|genus=Acacia
|genus=Acacia
|species=mellifera
|species=mellifera
|common_name=Swarthaak
|common_name=Swarthaak
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|image_width=240
|image_width=240
}}
}}
'''''Acacia mellifera''''' is a perennial tree which is listed as being not threatened.<ref name="ILDIS">What goes here?</ref>
The name ''mellifera'' refers to its sweet-smelling blossoms and honey. Its lumber turns pitch black when oiled. Common names of the tree include Blackthorn and Swaarthaak ([[Afrikaans]]).
'''''Acacia mellifera''''' is found in the dry areas of [[Africa]], the [[Arabian Peninsula]], [[India]] and in the [[Indian Ocean]] area.<ref name="ILDIS">What goes here?</ref>
''Acacia mellifera'' can manifest itself either as a multi-trunked bush up to seven meters high with more or less a funnel-shaped crown, but also as a small single-trunked tree, which can reach a height of up to nine meters. This kind of acacia can reproduce by seed formation and by stick excursion to form an impenetrable [[thicket]] of several hundred individuals.
==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==
==Varieties==
==Varieties==
Subspecies:
*[[Acacia mellifera subsp. detinens|''Acacia mellifera'' (Vahl)Benth. subsp. ''detinens'' (Burchell)Brenan]]
*[[Acacia mellifera subsp. mellifera|''Acacia mellifera'' (Vahl)Benth. subsp. ''mellifera'']]<ref>[http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb/6.00/fam/f2.shtml ILDIS]</ref>
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
