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Fern-leaf Acacia

Vachellia pennatula

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.January 66, February 48, March 50, April 230, May 95, June 44, July 53, August 54, September 47, October 71, November 59, December 66.
Mexico883
Michoacan de Ocampo286
Jalisco166
Guanajuato134
Oaxaca79
Chiapas66
San Luis Potosi26
Queretaro de Arteaga21
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave18
Sinaloa14

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderLegumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
FamilyLegumes · Fabaceae
Genusthorn trees · Vachellia

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