Herbario Virtual del Mediterráneo Occidental
Àrea de Botànica, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Acacia karroo Hayne
Family : LEGUMINOSAE
Genus : Acacia
Catalan common name : Aromer de Sud-àfrica.
Spanish common name : Espina dulce.
General distribution : Africa
Flowering time : April. May. June. July.
Life-forms : Macrophanerophyte.
Habitat : Gardens.
Uses and properties : Dye industry. Edible or foodstuffs. Furniture, construction and tools. Medicinal. Tòxica.
Characteristics : A tree that grows to 8 m. in height, deciduous and with a broad crown. Very characteristic are its prominent spies that make it unmistakeable (the oldest branches can have white spines up to 10 cm. in length.) The leaves (phylodes) are divided (bipinnate) and the yellow flowers are grouped in round, pedunculate glomerules located on the axils of the upper leaves. The fruit is elongate and compressed, constricted between the seeds.
