Acacia abyssinica
Summary 5
Vachellia abyssinica (flat top acacia) is a tree up to 16 m tall. Its bark is reddish-brown on older trees. On younger trees it is pale yellowish-brown, peeling off in papery wads. Young twigs are softly hairy. Thorns are aligned in straight pairs at nodes. Leaves are in pinnae pairs of 20-40; the leaflets are very small, up to 4 × 0.75 mm. The inflorescence is arranged in white spherical heads. The involucel is located in the...
Description 6
Flat-topped tree, to 16 m. Bark reddish-brown on older trees; pale yellowish-brown, peeling off in papery wads, on younger trees. Young twigs softly hairy. Thorns in straight pairs at nodes. Leaves: pinnae pairs 20-40; leaflets very small, up to 4 × 0.75 mm. Inflorescence of white spherical heads. Involucel in lower half of peduncle. Pods dehiscent.
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- (c) Rob Burrett, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/125750-3.jpg
- (c) Rob Burrett, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/125750-1.jpg
- (c) Rob Burrett, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/125750-4.jpg
- (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/125750-5.jpg
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_abyssinica
- (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/19237686
