Rancho Palos Verdes will spend up to $200,000 in the coming weeks to remove invasive acacia shrubs from some 38 acres inside the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve to reduce the risk of fire. The shrub is a ...

The Central American acacia plant Acacia hindsii enjoys a special relationship with its neighbors. These plants are myrmecophyte—plants that rely on the help of ants to clean them, guard them from ...

In Africa and in the tropics, armies of tiny creatures make the twisting stems of acacia plants their homes. Aggressive, stinging ants feed on the sugary nectar the plant provides and live in nests ...

In the 1960s, Penn biologist Dan Janzen, as part of earning his Ph.D., re-described what has become a classic example of biological mutualism: the obligate relationship between acacia-ants and ...

Some Acacia hybrid (A. mangium × A. auriculiformis) plantations in are prone to heavy branching and poor stem form. The age of the stock plants used to produce cuttings for clonal propagation and/or ...

Ant-acacia plants attract ants by offering specialized food and hollow thorns in which the ants live, while the ant colony in turn defends its acacia against herbivores. This mutualistic relationship ...