Vachellia tortuosa (L.) Seigler & Ebinger is a plant in the Fabaceae family, order Fabales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Vachellia tortuosa (L.) Seigler & Ebinger

Vachellia tortuosa (L.) Seigler & Ebinger

Vachellia tortuosa is a small thorny shrub or tree with compound yellow-flowered growth and curved moniliform fruit.

Family
Genus
Vachellia
Order
Fabales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Vachellia tortuosa (L.) Seigler & Ebinger

Vachellia tortuosa (L.) Seigler & Ebinger is a shrub to small tree that grows 1 to 2 metres (3.3 to 6.6 ft) tall. Its stipular spines may be fused at their bases. The leaves are compound, with 4 to 8 pairs of segments and 15 to 20 pairs of leaflets, and have an elliptic petiolar gland. This species produces yellow flowers with numerous stamens. Its fruit is slender, moniliform, and slightly curved.

Photo: (c) Steven Mlodinow, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Steven Mlodinow · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Fabales Fabaceae Vachellia

More from Fabaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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