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Family: Fabaceae Scientific name: Vachellia farnesiana Description: Plant Form: Bushy shrub or small tree. Size: Up to 5 m tall. Stem: Greyish brown and rough with prominent white spots. Hairy when young, becoming hairless with age. Branches grow in zig-zagging pattern. Leaves: Green or yellowish-green, fernlike with 5-20 pairs of narrow rounded leaflets 4-8 mm long. With a pair of thorns about 2.5 cm long at the base of each leaf. Flowers: Yellow and ball-shaped on stalks, typical wattle flowers, about 1 cm across, which are actually clusters of 33-95 individual flowers. In groups of 1-3 in leaf joins. Fruit and Seeds: Dark brown or black woody cigar-like straight or curved pods. Seeds embedded in pith. Habitat: Open woodlands, rangelands, grasslands, shrublands. Distinguishing Features: Distinguished from Prickly acacia (Vachellia nilotica) by being generally shorter, having cigar shaped and non-constricted pods, and also shorter spines. Weed Status: Other Weed Weed Type: Environmental, Invasive Garden Escapee Lifeform: Shrubby, Woody/tree
