Cassie Absolute

Cassie Absolute Care

Acacia Farnesiana

Other names: Huisache, Texas Huisache, Perfume Acacia, Mealy Acacia, Mealy Wattle, Cassie, Vachellia Farnesiana, Acacia Minuta, Acacia Smallii, Mimosa Farnesiana, Pithecellobium Minutum, Vachellia Densiflora

What is the plant

Huizache (Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. or Vachellia farnesiana (L.) Wight & Arn.) is a tropical leguminous shrub native of Central and South America. It is fast-growing, showy, thorny, evergreen or almost evergreen. Huizache is a multipurpose species: it produces gum, its fragrant flowers are used to make perfumes and it can be cut to make forage for small ruminants. The shrub also hosts the lac insect and is attractive to bees.

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Humidity

Dry

Lighting

Full Sun

Hardiness zone

9 - 11

Difficulty

Medium

Hibernation

Cold Period

Toxicity

Poisonous

How to Care for the Plant

Water
It prefers dry or moist soil and can tolerate drought.
Pruning
Does not respond well to hard pruning.
Fertilizer
In growth, water freely and feed monthly; sparingly in winter.

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Sunlight
It cannot grow in the shade.
Soil
Suitable for: light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils, prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Suitable pH: acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils and can grow in very acid, very alkaline and saline soils.
Temperature
Whilst this species is not very tolerant of cold, being damaged by even a few degrees of frost, the variety A. farnesiana cavenia seems to be more resistant to both drought and frost[

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Additional
The seeds, containing an unnamed alkaloid, are used to kill rabid dogs in Brazil
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