Species
Caesalpinia spinosa
Etymology
Caesalpinia: After Andrea Cesalpino (1525-1603) an Italian botanist, philosopher and physician
spinosa: spiny
Authority
Caesalpinia spinosa Kuntze
Family
Fabaceae
Flora Category
Vascular - Exotic
Structural Class
Dicotyledonous Trees & Shrubs
Habitat
A cultivation escape. Collected on the lower slopes of Mt Wellington, Auckland, in an old arboretum, as numerous seedlings and saplings in and around parent tree, on an adjacent basalt wall and in slope roadside.
Flower Colours
Orange,Yellow
Year Naturalised
2006
Reason For Introduction
Horticultural.
Life Cycle Comments
Tree
Reproduction
Exclusively by seed
Seed
Large, long-lived, hard-shelled seeds held in large pods.
Dispersal
Gravity and probably by water. People may pick the pods and so disperse seeds by discarding them
This page last updated on 8 May 2011