Description
Acacia (scientific name: Acacia farnesiana (Linn.) Willd.), aliases: duck saponaria, thorny ball flower, message tree, etc.; shrubs or small trees, rough bark, brown, multi-branched, and twigs often show a zigzag shape Curved, with small lenticels. The stipules are needle-like, shorter on branchlets. Two pinnately compound leaves, leaf shafts, gray-white pilose, 4-8 pairs of pinnacles. The flowers are yellow and fragrant; the ovary is cylindrical and puberulent. The pods are swollen, nearly cylindrical, brown, glabrous, straight or curved; seeds are many, brown, ovoid, flowering from March to June; fruiting from July to November.
This species is multi-branched, thorny, and can be planted as a hedge; the wood is hard and can be a valuable equipment; the root and pods contain tannin, which can be a black dye, and can be used as medicine to converge and clear away heat; the flowers are very fragrant and can be used as a fragrance; the stems flow out The resin can be used for art and medicine, and its quality is better than gum arabic.
