Vachellia farnesiana
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Vachellia farnesiana
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Origin : area of origin
wild or cultivated
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Description
1, flowering branch; 2, gland on petiole; 3, mucronate top of leaf rachis; 4, inflorescences; 5, mature fruits (PROSEA).
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CASSIE-OIL PLANT. HUISACHE. OPOPANAX. POPINAC. SPONGE TREE. WEST INDIAN BLACKTHORN. Tropics. This species is cultivated all over India and is indigenous in America, from New Orleans, Texas and Mexico, to Buenos Aires and Chile, and is sometimes cultivated. It exudes a gum which is collected in Sind[1]. The flowers distil a delicious perfume.
- ↑ Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 180. 1876.
