Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys

Scientific Name:
Common Name(s):
Adenanthera pavonina
Red sandlewood
Height:
Leaves:
Flowers:
Bark:
Fruit:
Other:
A medium sized tree to 30 ft or more
Compound, 10 to 12 inches long, with 10 to 12 oblong 2 inch leaflets.
White and yellow flowers are produced in dense narrow unbranched
inflorescences
Fruit are brown pods that coil upon opening to reveal many bright, scarlet
hard seeds that cling to the dry pods
This broad open canopied tree is usually deciduous, dropping its leaves in
winter either from cold or drought stress
Treatment:
University of HI Botany Dept
www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/badplants.htm
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