Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by BramEsposito 4101 days ago
Acacia is a genus, with species in both Africa and Australia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia.
1 comments

sorry /me stupid kraut trapped by Wikipedia, and 2005 plant reclassification.

The German Acacia Wikipedia entry only contains the genus Acacia, while "Akazien" points to the tribe that is including all those plants that are normally known under the common name of acacia.

Btw, the picture of the English wikipedia also shows that the genus Acacia is only native to Australia. I guess they are planting Senegalia and not Acacia there. Same plant, it just got renamed 10 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegalia