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  • COMMON NAME: Sweet acacia, huisache, needle bush
  • ARABIC: سنط، عنبر، فتنة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Acacia farnesiana (L.)
  • SYNONYMS: A. cavenia
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F) Landscape (L) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs Tree
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.australianseed.com/shop/item/acacia-farnesiana Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. http://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2016/04/acacia-farnesiana-l-willd-cyprus.html V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Moderately salt tolerant, highly grazable, fuel and ornamental tree, has medicinal use.

shrub or small tree, 1.5-3 meter high. branches slightly zigzag ,glabrous, cortex browing to purplish. stipuls spinescent, divergent, in paris, 8-20 mm long. pinnae2-8 paris leaflets in 10-20 paris, oblong, acute, sessile, 2-5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide glabrous or ciliate below, with prominet midrib below. Petiole 10-20 mm long, with a sessile gland; rachis 20-40 mm long, pilose. Flowers fragrant, yellow, in globular heads on axillary peduncles, 15-25 cm long. Calyx 1.5-1.8 mm tubular-campanulate, 5-dentate. Corolla 2-3 mm long. Filaments yellow. Pod 3-6 cm long, 1-1.5 cm broad, slightly curved, turgid, glabrous, dark brown. Seeds oblong-ovate, numerous, biseriate. 

Flowering from March to May.
sandy gravel soil. Cultivated in garden or sometimes escaped, in salty places.
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