Robinia pseudoacacia

Flowers. Hutt River Trail north of Stokes Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 21/11/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Hutt River Trail north of Stokes Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 21/11/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Hutt River trail north of Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 21/11/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Hutt River Trail north of Stokes Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 09/05/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Robinia pseudacacia.<br>Photographer: Graeme La Cock, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

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Common name

black locust

Family

Fabaceae

Authority

Robinia pseudoacacia L.

Flora category

Vascular – Exotic

Structural class

Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons

NVS code

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ROBPSE

Habitat

Terrestrial.

Features

Deciduous tree up to 25 m high. The compound pinnate leaves are 20-30 cm long, bearing 12-15 elliptic leaflets arising more or less opposite one another. Branches are scattered with sharp, stipular spines c. 1 cm long. Inflorescence is a raceme with numerous white flowers, each about 1 cm long.

Flowering

November, December, January

Flower colours

White

Year naturalised

1870

Origin

C. and E. North America

Reason For Introduction
Ornamental

Life Cycle Comments
Perennial.

Reproduction
Seed and vegetative spread by suckering.

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