Accession Data
Acacia koa
Common Name: koa
Family: Fabaceae
Country of Origin: Hawaii (endemic)
Description: Initially, bipinnately compound leaves with 12–24 pairs of leaflets grow on the koa plant, much like other members of the pea family. At about 6–9 months of age, however, thick sickle-shaped "leaves" that are not compound begin to grow. These are phyllodes, blades that develop as an expansion of the leaf petiole. The vertically flattened orientation of the phyllodes allows sunlight to pass to lower levels of the tree. True leaves are entirely replaced by 7–25-centimetre (2.8–9.8 in) long, 0.5–2.5-centimetre (0.20–0.98 in) wide phyllodes on an adult tree.
Accession Data
Accession #: 341
Accession Date: -0001-11-30 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Culture: acidic to neutral soils
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: eurosid I
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
SubFamily: Mimosoideae
Tribe: Acacieae
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