Acacia caven
Roman cassie · also Aromita, Aromo criollo, Caven
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Vachellia caven is an ornamental shrub or tree native to South America, featuring crooked, slender branches, thorns, and fragrant yellow blooms in winter and spring. It tolerates coastal, desert, and semi-arid environments, and thrives in drought and poor soils. Outside its native range, it can be highly invasive.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 850.03%—9.1 in
No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.
Traits
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Mature height
- 15–20 ft
- Canopy spread
- 15–20 ft
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Water needs
- Low
- Drought tolerance
- High
- Tolerates
- coastal, salt
- Blooms
- Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Dec
Trunk diameters across every city: median 9.1 in, mean 9.9 in, 90th percentile 19 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Other Acacia in the catalogue
35 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
