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Acacia gaumeri
Photo take in a jungle path this is one of the most common tree in the area, during the rainy season bears broad, flat, thin pods with rounded, reinforced margins, clustered at the tips of the tree's whitish, rather stout branches. The pods mature to the dark, purplish color shown in the picture. A well developed pod has around eleven closely spaced, longish seeds inside. Note the supstantial "empty space" between the seeds and the pod's thick margin.
Found on tropical and subtropical areas in Central America .
The twice-pinnate, ferny leaves could be confused with a number of other Bean-Family trees.
Spotted on Sep 3, 2012
Submitted on Sep 3, 2012
2 Comments
Thanks Bernadette :)
Neat to see a different type of acacia than the ones we're used to here!