Fabaceae FAMILY

Mimosa tenuiflora

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Mimosa tenuiflora is a very spiny, deciduous tree with a sparse and irregular crown; it can grow 4 - 6 metres tall. The bole is slightly inclined and can be 20 - 30cm in diameter[ 420 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 2. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-15-1 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use of its wood. It can be used as a pioneer species to restore native woodland.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela; C. America - Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico.

HabitatDry forests of northeast Brazil, where it is found mainly in secondary formations on the floodplains of rivers in deep, moist, fertile, usually alkaline soils[ 420 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 2. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-15-1 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ].