Parkinsonia aculeata L.

FABACEAE

- Pea family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Parkinsonia aculeata L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 375 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Jerusalem thorn

English name: Barbados flowerfence

English name: horse-bean

Spanish name: palo verde mejicano

French name: arrêtenègre

Italian name: Parchinsonia spinosa

German name: Jerusalemdorn

Grown habit: Tree, Shrub
Duration: Perennial

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Parkinsonia
Species:

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Parkinsonia aculeata
Leaves thorns and seedpod at Alan Bible Visitor Center Lake Mead, Nevada - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Parkinsonia aculeata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Athens, southern slope of Acropolis, Attica, Greece, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Parkinsonia aculeata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Athens, Anafiotika, northern slope of the Acropolis, Attica, Greece, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Parkinsonia aculeata
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Parkinsonia aculeata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Roma, Orto Botanico dell'Università di Roma , Roma, Lazio, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Parkinsonia aculeata
Credit: Photo by Beppe Di Gregorio

Parkinsonia aculeata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Barcellona, Nou Jardí Botànic, Catalogna, Spagna, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Parkinsonia aculeata
Flowers at Papalaua, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Parkinsonia aculeata
Cut branches at Papalaua, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Parkinsonia aculeata
Flowers at Naalae Rd Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Parkinsonia aculeata
Habit at Naalae Rd Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Parkinsonia aculeata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Athens, southern slope of Acropolis, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Attica, Greece, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Parkinsonia aculeata
Credit: Photo by Beppe Di Gregorio

Parkinsonia aculeata
Trunk at Alan Bible Visitor Center Lake Mead, Nevada - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Parkinsonia aculeata
Small plant at Papalaua, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Parkinsonia aculeata
Treated cut stumps at Papalaua, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Parkinsonia aculeata
Branch with Cylindropuntia bigelovii at Alan Bible Visitor Center Lake Mead, Nevada - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AZ, CA, FL, GA, HI, LA, MS, NM, NV, SC, TX, UT), USA+ (PR, VI)

Distributional map for Parkinsonia aculeata L.
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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Parkinsonia texana (A. Gray) S. Watson var. texana [250]
2) Parmelia abstrusa Vain. [149]
3) Parmelia ahtii Essl. [134]
4) Parmelia alabamensis Hale & McCull. [110]
5) Parmelia aleuritica Nyl. [99]
6) Parmelia amazonica Nyl. [150]
7) Parmelia arnoldii Du Rietz [150]
8) Parmelia aurulenta Tuck. [135]
9) Parmelia borreri (Sm.) Turner [138]
10) Parmelia cetrata Ach. var. hypotropoides Nyl. ex Willey [104]

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