I have started a forest, using young trees that are springing up in my back
yard from the large tree growing there.

I would like to identify it. It looks a bit like a Jacaranda in the trunk
and branches and leaves, but the small flowers are bright yellow. It drops
it's leaves and flowers at least once a year (not good for the pool :-))
and has small seedpods about an inch or so long, shaped like a thin flat
oval wing with a seed bulging in one corner.

Any guesses?

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I have started a forest, using young trees that are springing
up in my back
yard from the large tree growing there.

I would like to identify it. It looks a bit like a Jacaranda
in the trunk
and branches and leaves, but the small flowers are bright
yellow. It drops
it's leaves and flowers at least once a year (not good for the
pool :-))
and has small seedpods about an inch or so long, shaped like a
thin flat
oval wing with a seed bulging in one corner.

Any guesses?

Sure, but it would be easier if you told us what part of the
world you are from (not to mention a name we can pin on). I
assume a warm climate because of the kind of tree you describe
and the reference to a pool. But I really don't like to be that
much of a detective. ;-)

It is an Acacia species. If you live in the SE USA it is A.
farnsiana, A. pinetorum, (S.W. Fla. only), or A. smallii (N.W.
Fla and adjacent states). There are a few other, rare and
endangered, species that grow in limited area in the Florida
Keys. There's another Acacia -- angustissima, var. hirta that
grows in dry lands of the lower Midwestern USA, south into Texas.
It does NOT have thorns (one of the few).

It could be an Albezia -- A. lebbeck (Cent. and S. Fla).

There are other species of these two general in Texas, N.M.,
Ariz. and Southern California.

Most are weedy (and "springing up in your back yard" sounds
right). Almost all have thorns, many of them wickedly dangerous.

None of these -- in MY opinion -- make exemplary bonsai.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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Sure, but it would be easier if you told us what part of the
world you are from (not to mention a name we can pin on). I
assume a warm climate because of the kind of tree you describe
and the reference to a pool. But I really don't like to be that
much of a detective. ;-)

yes, again sorry (see my other reply to you as well)


It is an Acacia species. If you live in the SE USA it is A.
farnsiana, A. pinetorum, (S.W. Fla. only), or A. smallii (N.W.
Fla and adjacent states). There are a few other, rare and
endangered, species that grow in limited area in the Florida
Keys. There's another Acacia -- angustissima, var. hirta that
grows in dry lands of the lower Midwestern USA, south into Texas.
It does NOT have thorns (one of the few).

It could be an Albezia -- A. lebbeck (Cent. and S. Fla).

There are other species of these two general in Texas, N.M.,
Ariz. and Southern California.

Most are weedy (and "springing up in your back yard" sounds
right). Almost all have thorns, many of them wickedly dangerous.

no thorns on this one


None of these -- in MY opinion -- make exemplary bonsai.

From what I know of bonsai (beginner) and wattle trees, I would agree, but
then I have noted the use of Jade plants as bonsai, and I wouldn't have
guessed they'd be any use either.


Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman



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