Acacia glauca
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Description
Erect unarmed shrub or small tree, 2-4 m high.
Branchlets terete, longitudinally striate.
Leaves bipinnate (or tripinnate in the top of the twigs), rachis and pinnae eglandular, rachis 8-12 cm, pinnae 2-8(-10) pairs, 4-7 cm;
Stipules caducous.
Inflorescences consisting of pedunculate 20-40- flowered capitate racemes, 2-6 together in the distal leaf axils, or aggregated in terminal racemes;
Flowers white turning yellowish, pentamerous.
Stamens numerous.
Seeds transverse, funicle long, slender.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines), Jamaica present, all over the tropics cultivated
Jamaica; cultivated all over the tropics as an ornamental. Said to be naturalized in the Philippines (PNH 7014). Tried as cover plant in teak and tea plantations. In Malesia found at altitudes up to 1100 m.