Sweet acacia - Acacia farnesiana ( edit )

Botany
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Sub-family: Mimosoideae
(subfam & crops)
Species: Acacia farnesiana
Common name: Sweet acacia

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Origin
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Mexico
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Uses

Main use:
conservation
Harvest method:
hand picking
Shelf life:
medium shelf life
Yield first season:
0.4 kg/tree flowers
Yield top season:
1 kg/tree flowers
Parameter Concerning part Quality Crop's name Proportion Top-50
Edibility
  • fresh leaf
  • seed/nut
  • shoot
minor food
Medicinal
bark
low
 Farnesol
0%
1%
 medicals
Lipids flower
(solvent extraction
)
very good
Cassie perfume
0.5%
1.3%
 liphids
Apiculture:
good
 honey
Fruit:
inedible
 fruits
Nut:
low
 nuts
Fodder:
very good
 fodder
Wood stem / wood
good
Farnesiana wood
 900ρ 1,050ρ timber
Fuel: stem / wood 7.5 credits 4,600 kcal/kg fuelwood
Minor uses:








  • apiculture
  • edible leave/shoot
  • endo-mycorrhiza
  • fodder
  • fuel
  • medicinal
  • oil
  • tannin

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Plant Details
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Crown
Parameter Value Unit Top-50
Height:
7
 m tallest
Crown width:
5
 m widest
Planting distance:
300
 cm
Row distance:
600
 cm
Growing speed:
slow
 fastest
Shade tolerance:
full sun
 umbra

Roots
Parameter Value Top-50
RootSystem:
deep
 hexagon
MycorRhiza:
high endo-mycorrhizae
 AM-plants
Symbiotic fungi:
  • Glomus intraradices
  • Glomus mosseae

 M-fungi
N-fixing:
able to
 N-plants
Symbiotic bacteria:
Sinorhizobium americanum
 N-bact.

Crop Timing
Parameter Value Unit Top-50
First flowering: 2 - 3 Years latest
Soonest commercial removal:
9
 Years fastest
Lifespan:
45
 Years oldest
InterCropModel(ICM):
- No ICM -

Regeneration
Parameter Value Top-50
Flower morphology: hermaphroditic
 specials
Pollinators:
bees
 specials
Allelopathy: not allelopathic resists
Abscission: decidious in winter specials
Invasiveness: invasive weeds
Thorns: thorns fencers

Environment
Parameter min optimal max Unit Top-50
Altitude: 0m 950 m 1,900m meters above sea-level highest
Temperature: -2°C 15°C 28°C Celcius hardiest
Rainfall: 500 mm 750 mm 1,000 mm mm/year (litres/m2) dryest
Soil-pH: 6.0 7.7 pH dryest
Soil-texture:
drained
Climate:
tropical

Seeds
Parameter Value Unit
Seed storage:
orthodox
Seed viability:
300
 months
Seed weight:
11,000
13,000
 seeds/kg

Tolerances
Parameter Value Top-50
Salt tolerance:
tolerant
 tolerants
Wind tolerance:
tolerant
 tolerants
Fire tolerance:
a bit tolerant
 tolerants

Pests and Diseases
Pests:
-
 Diseases:
Anthracnose

Propagation instruction
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  • (1) Store harvested seeds dry at room temperature
  • (2) Soak the seeds overnight in warm water before sowing.
  • (3) press the seeds twice its size in the soil soil.
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Additional Photos
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