Robinia pseudoacacia L.

Spice Fruit detail In the city

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Robinia

Catalan common name: Acàcia blanca. Acàcia de bola. Acàcia falsa. Almussafes. Càcia. Castellserà. Robínia. Ultramort.

Spanish common name: Acacia blanca.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): North American

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Macrophanerophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Garden plants. Gardens and sometimes naturalizated.

Characteristics: A tree which can reach up to 25 m in height, yet is generally shorter. In the islands it has been planted in gardens and along roadsides, it lives as a subspontaneous in many places. It is originally from North America. It has composite leaves with several pairs of oval leaflets and one terminal one; it is deciduous in winter. The flowers are white, grouped in dense racemes which hang down in a very visible way. The fruits are pods which can be up to 10 cm long, brown, with very marked seeds in the valves. It flowers at the end of spring.