This beautiful shrub to small tree is the most common naturally occurring vachellia in the Free State National Botanical Garden.

Acacia hebeclada (Vachellia hebeclada)is a hardy, small to medium-sized, spreading, deciduous tree or large shrub with paired, sharp spines. The dark brown to grey bark is fissured and flaking. Birds, such as the Red-billed Wood Hoopoe, enjoy probing under the bark for insects.

Usually a shrub, branching near ground level, often forming thickets. Bark dark grey, fissured, flaking; young branches densely greyish hairy. Spines paired, ...

A low growing shrub at the high flood zone, or a small tree up to 7 m tall on higher ground of alluvial terraces. Spines stipular, paired, mostly recurved, or ...

This tree survives drought & cold. Has dry flaking bark & may reach 5m+ high. Small, bipinnate Leaves have small leaflets and paired spinescent stipules.

A shrub to a small tree up to 6 m tall. It branches start very near the ground. The bark is dark grey and flaky. The leaves are small and feathery, with the ...

A small shrub growing up to 1.5 metres tall, whilst the subspecies chobiensis is a large, thicket-forming shrub or small tree growing up to 3 metres.

A low growing shrub at the high flood zone, or a small tree up to 7 m tall on higher ground of alluvial terraces. Spines stipular, paired, mostly recurved, or ...

Infraspecies Acacia hebeclada hebeclada (Candle thorn) · kingdom: Plantae · - phylum: Tracheophyta · -- class: Magnoliopsida · --- order: Fabales · ---- family: ...