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FALSE ACACIA 



8 General hue of twigs andbranches 

 dark slate-blackish; buds not 

 distichous; leaf -scar generally 

 flanked bystipular spines; leaves 

 pinnate; flowers white, papilio- 

 naceous, in pendulous racemes. 

 Fruit a legume. 



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Fig. 106. Eobinia Pseud-acacia, False Acacia. Bark (Irv). 



Robinia Pseud-acacia, L. False Acacia (Fig. 106). The 

 tree may attain 6070 feet in height, but is usually much 

 smaller. The dark-coloured, very widely and coarsely 

 fissured bark, ample, spreading crown, very zig-zag spray 

 and tortuous branches are characteristic; even more so the 



