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Vachellia tortuosa (huisachillo; poponax; Alabama Cossy; Acacia; twisted acacia; Carambomba; Wild Poponax; Pompons Jaunes; Cossie; Casia; Bayahonde Rouge)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Vachellia tortuosa, the Twisted acacia , Poponax and Huisachillo, is a woody, leguminous thorn tree of the Caribbean, Florida, southern Texas, northeastern and central Mexico, and northern South America. It is found in tropical and desert habitats, such as the Rio Grande Valley, Central Mexican Plateau, and Colombian Tatacoa Desert.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Tree

Predators

Chlorostilbon mellisugus (Blue-tailed Emerald)[4]
Cnemidophorus ruthveni (Laurent's Whiptail)[5]
Iguana iguana (Common Green Iguana)[6]
Neotoma micropus (southern plains woodrat)[7]

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External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Testing Models of Optimal Diet Assembly by the Generalist Herbivorous Lizard Cnemidophorus murinus, M. Denise Dearing and Jos. J. Schall, Ecology, 73(3), 1992, pp. 845-858
♦ 6Optimal foraging of a herbivorous lizard, the green iguana in a seasonal environment, Wouter D. van Marken Lichtenbelt, Oecologia (1993) 95: 246-256
♦ 7Food Habits of Rodents Inhabiting Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems of Central New Mexico, ANDREW G. HOPE AND ROBERT R. PARMENTER, Special Publication of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, NUMBER 9, pp. 1–75 (2007)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0