PINK ACACIA - EVERYTHING FROM A TO Z, PHOTOS AND VIDEO

The well-established name of this sun-loving tree, introduced into the gardens of France from North America, is acacia. But, as can be seen from the international classifier of flora - it is erroneous.
Therefore, in the scientific literature they use the synonym - "false acacia", "false acacia", "pseudoacacia" or in memory of the wish of the Swedish naturalist Karl Linnei - "robinia".

Is it all about color?

The true family of the Acaciaceans originates from the tropical belt of the Southern Hemisphere, from the plants we know it includes mimosa. And genuine acaciaand pseudo-campaigns are heat-loving plants with a rich historical past, a stream of legends and beliefs.

White locust, or Robinia white color today represented by hundreds of hundreds of species, to the decoration of which a man had a hand. One of these options for visual flashiness was robinia pink:

The color of its colors can be light pink and densely colored, and even with a lilac shade. But the shape of flowers, leaves and fruits does not raise doubts in relation to the white-flowered, and no wonder, since they both came out of the general bounds of the taxonomy - the legume family.
Robiniya pink smaller (not higher than 10 meters), not so durable, but redeems all the beauty of its bloom, which happens 2 times per season.
Its flowers are larger, and collected not in loose hanging, and in dense upright inflorescences.
She doesn’t have that thick, intoxicating aroma that the white-toned relative has: in some cases she does not smell at all. But pollinators accurately find its flowers and do not leave the entire period of flowering.
She has no modified stipules that form white acacia thorns, and, if present, it is very small and soft.
For the stickiness of young shoots, petioles and inflorescences covered with sticky (glandular) reddish hairs, pink acacia was given another, less sonorous name - Robinia Adhesive.
Gardeners note as an advantage of this type - special resistance to low temperatures (below -30◦С) and abnormal heat (+ 30◦С).

Esotericism gives acacia the ability to give life: it awakens the instincts of procreation, her waiting spouses ask the child. Pink acacia endows women with beauty and elegance.

What is common in plants that differ in color of inflorescences.

As with the white-color relative, pink Robinia:

branchy, horizontal root system, which makes it able to strengthen the slopes, sandstones, wastelands;
it is characterized by growth intensity, especially in the first years of life, when its growth reaches 30-60 cm per season;
this plant tolerates gas pollution of the city, soil salinization of seaside embankments;
like all plants of this family, it is able to accumulate nitrogen in the soil as a result of a complex process of photosynthesis;
Robinia Adhesive is a storehouse of useful substances estimated by man: essential, oils, flavanoids and tannins, organic acids;
The visual effect of a flowering tree especially affects women: in harmonizing the emotional sphere, relieving depressive states, replenishing bioenergetics.

In psychology, pink is considered as an instrument of color therapy, capable of removing negative manifestations in people: anger, irritability, internal stress.

Robiniya is sticky, and how to recognize it

Of course the most obvious signs will become visible during flowering, but there are morphological features that allow recognition of robinia pink at any stage of development:

Tree of medium vigor, with a stem covered with dark brown smooth bark.
It grows with root shoots, therefore it needs regular pruning.
The buds are vegetative and generative, tightly pressed to the shoot, differ in size and shape (the latter are larger and more rounded).
Leaves are pinnate, collected from 13-20 oval leaves of bright green color; their back side has a grayish tint; sticky hairs cover long petioles; The plant is deciduous, but until autumn the color of the leaves changes little, except that it darkens, they often fall off without yellowing.
Large zygomorphic flowers are collected in dense upright inflorescences; the complex shape of the flower is characteristic of all plants of the legume family and is designed for strong and heavy pollinators: bees, bumblebees and even birds. To attract pollinators, the tree uses not so much a fragrance that is too weak, but a coloration of inflorescences: all shades of pink and pink-purple. Abundant flowering.

It blooms for the first time at the beginning of summer (end of May - beginning of June), having regained its strength, it produces a second flowering in three weeks (end of July), right up to the autumn, allowing up to 5 waves of flowering.

Fruits - sticky pod with seeds (up to 10 pieces) in a hard shell. Guaranteed seed germination - 10 years. Ripen by November, may hang on the tree all winter.

Robinia sticky characteristic of all the healing qualities of white acacia: as part of antipyretic and anti-inflammatory drugs, diuretics, distracting rubbing with neuralgia and radiculitis, in the treatment of gastritis and peptic ulcer.

Care and reproduction of Robinia

Plant care is made up of a mandatory set of agrotechnical measures:

landing on a sunny hillock taking into account the growth of the crown, which can correspond to the projection of the location of the roots (up to 10 meters in diameter), protected from constant winds; The plant does not have increased requirements for the soil composition: it is ready to grow even on poor soils;
spring pruning pristvolnyh shoots and dried injured branches;
intensive watering in the initial stage of growth and in the period of drought;
weeding wheel circle;
top dressing mineral fertilizers from the beginning of flowering (in the 3rd year);
protection against frost in the period of formation of a sapling (up to 3 years).

For room planting, the species of robinia is not suitable, but in the garden it can become the dominant composition or element of group plantings. The task is simplified by the ability to propagate this plant in one of 3 ways:

planting scarified seeds that germinate with a 100% guarantee with air t + 20-25◦С; if the seeds were sown in a closed ground, a seedling up to half a meter is suitable for transplanting;
grafting lateral roots in the nutrient substrate; The escape, which will appear in 4 weeks, will have a height of 60 cm by the end of the summer;
grafting on a wild-growing stock (for the purity of the species, all shoots of the mother plant are carefully removed).

Last tip

Reproduction of Robinia adhesive is carried out in the spring, before the revitalization of the movement of juices.
When planting plants, keep in mind that its ability to throw out root shoots can interfere with the cultivation of garden crops. A flowering tree, attractive to bees, can be a bad neighborhood with a window or a gazebo.