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Parkinsonia aculeata   Listen
Parkinsonia aculeata

noun
1.
Large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States.  Synonyms: horsebean, Jerusalem thorn.






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... 329. PARKINSONIA ACULEATA.—This leguminous plant is called Jerusalem Thorn. Although a native of Southern Texas and Mexico, it is found in many tropical countries, and is frequently used for making hedges. Indians in Mexico employ it as ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders



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