Black locust
ഫാൾസ് അക്കേഷ്യ,ബ്ളാക്ക് ലോക്കസ്റ്റ്
Robinia pseudoacacia L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- 8.4 m
Fabaceae
Also called False Acacia, Yellow Locust, Locust, Purple robe locust, White locust
Formerly Pseudacacia odorata, Pseudacacia vulgaris, Pseudo-acacia vulgaris, Robinia acacia, and 32 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- EC. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 9.1 m to 15 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 6.1 m to 11 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Acacia falsa, Acacia blanca, algarrobo
- root
- ROBPSE, ᎧᎶᏇᏗ, cvhahtv
- Italian
- Robinia, Maruga, Robinie
- Portuguese
- Robínia, Falsa acácia, Acácia-bastarda
- Finnish
- valkovaleakaasia, valeakaasia, Valkovaleakaasia
- Catalan
- Acàcia borda, Robínia
- Japanese
- ニセアカシア, ハリエンジュ, トゲナシニセアカシア
- French
- Robinier faux-acacia, Faux acacia, robinier faux-acacia
- German
- Gewöhnliche Robinie, Scheinakazie, Falsche Akazie
- Korean
- 아까시나무, 아까시 나무, 아카시나무
- Slovenian
- Robinija, navadna robinija
- Polish
- robinia akacjowa, grochodrzew akacjowy, robinia biała
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Robinia pseudoacacia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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