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Parkinsonia aculeata - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 9/2005 © Jörn Germer

Parkinsonia aculeata - Top and lower side of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Top and lower side of leaf; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 9/2005 © Jörn Germer

Parkinsonia aculeata - Thorns at the leaf base - Click to enlarge!

Thorns at the leaf base; O Grove, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain; 9/2005 © Jörn Germer

Parkinsonia aculeata - Pods close up - Click to enlarge!

Pods close up; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 9/2005 © Jörn Germer

Parkinsonia aculeata - Branch with flowers, unripe and ripe pods - Click to enlarge!

Branch with flowers, unripe and ripe pods; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 9/2005 © Jörn Germer

Parkinsonia aculeata - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 9/2005 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 113
Date of entry: 09.11.2005
Last update: 16.08.2020

Common name

English: Jerusalem Thorn

German: Jerusalemdorn

Mandarin: 扁轴木 (bian zhou mu)

Portuguese: Espinho de Jerusalém

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2625)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2528)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2137)

      Order: Fabales (241)

        Family: Fabaceae (241)(family description)

          Genus: Parkinsonia (1)

            Epithet: aculeata L. (1)

Synonym: Parkinsonia thornberi M.E.Jones

aculeata => with thorns, prickly and pointed

thornberi => in honor of John James Thornber (1872-1962), Professor of biology/botany at the University of Arizona, USA

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical, tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: yellow

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