Family: Fabaceae
Robinia pseudoacacia
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 722 (1753).
Synonymy: Robinia pseudacacia Common name: Black locust, false acacia, white acacia.
Description:
A tall handsome tree to 17 m high; leaflets 11-21, ovate, shortly stalked, 1.5-3 cm long; stipules becoming 2 stout spines.
Flowers white, fragrant, in long axillary racemes; calyx campanulate, c. 7 mm long, pubescent, the lobes broad; standard, wings and keel c. 18 mm long.
Pod c. 8 cm long, 12-14 mm broad, straight-edged, pendulous.
|
|
Image source: fig. 304 in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
|
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 411.
Distribution:
|
S.Aust.: FR, NL, MU, SL, SE. N.S.W.;. native to North America.
|
Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.
|
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
|
Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
|