Shade - Acacia - Sweet

Adaptable trees with unmatched fragrance. Numerous sweet smelling golden puff-ball blooms occur in spring. They are small to medium sized fast growing trees, mostly evergreen with long white thorns. Some thinning is helpful but no topping. Maintaining a dense canopy protects trunks from sunscald. Trees are drought tolerant when mature, but regular deep watering is best through establishment. Trees have small, compound, dark green leaves against dark rough, somewhat shaggy bark. Flowers are followed by short, hard dark brown seed pods.

Scientific name:  Acacia smallii syn. Vachellia farnesiana

Mature size:  15 to 30 ft. high and wide

Sun:  Full sun