Sweet Acacia 20 Seeds Huisache Acacia farnesiana

The Sweet Acacia is a deciduous shrub or a small tree with feathery, light green leaves and globose clusters of very fragrant, bright yellow flowers. The flowers are used to make perfume. A 15-20 ft., multi-trunked tree or shrub. Branchlets spiny and bearing finely divided leaves, each of the many leaflets less than 1/4 inch long. The bipinnately compound foliage is light-green and ferny. Small, fragrant, orange-yellow flowers 1/2 inch in diameter cluster in globose heads with many protruding stamens per flower. Fruit a reddish brown to black woody pod 1 1/2 to 3 inches long, rounded, not flat, and tapered at both ends. It is native to Southern North America from southern California east to southern Florida, south through Mexico and Central America to northern South America. It grows in sandy soils in pinelands. Sweet Acacia is grown as a native plant, a flowering plant, and in xeriscaping. It grows in full sun and is drought tolerant so it is cultivated in desert regions. The common n