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Swaziland's Alien Plants Database
| Senna didymobotrya (Fresen.) Irwin & Barneby |
| FABACEAE |
| wild senna, peanut butter cassia, African wild sensitive plant, candelabra tree, African senna, popcorn bush |
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Invasive, Problem species |
| Origin: Tropical Africa |
| Growth Form: Tree/shrub |
| Plant Description: Plant: Evergreen, rounded shrub or small tree 1–3(–6) m high; young shoots softly downy; flowers and cut stems smell of peanut butter.
Leaves: Dark green, with 8–21 pairs of ovate-oblong leaflets 20–50 mm long, bases asymmetric, tips shortly pointed; stipules ovate, with a tapering point, persistent.
Flowers: Bright yellow, buds dark brown, in narrow, erect racemes up to 450 mm long, all year.
Fruit: Pods, green turning dark brown, softly downy, flattened, ± 100 mm long x 20 mm wide, long-beaked. |
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| Control: manually |
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