| large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dyeing and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails; formerly used medicinally |
| spiny tree having dark red edible fruits | |
| thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit | |
| East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu | |