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Shovel in hand, Dan Boarman scouts Sunnier Palms for invasive species encroaching on the 30-acre park and campground in western St. Lucie County. Once he eyes an earleaf acacia, the former ...

Acacia tree saplings have sprouted up INSIDE the home of pensioners Kathleen and Graham Wass and they're making life a misery. By. Tom Pettifor Crime Editor. 00:00, 20 Jul 2009; ...

Ants in your pants? That's nothing compared with ants up your snout. And that's what elephants in the African savanna must contend with when trying to snag a meal from a certain type of acacia tree.

An enzyme in the nectar of acacia trees makes ants chemically dependent on their sugar. Photograph by Alexander L.Wild. Trees Trap Ants Into Sweet Servitude.

A moderate-to-fast-growing small evergreen (evergray?) tree, the purple-leaf acacia reaches 20 to 30 feet tall and wide. Its dense, spreading canopy is easily shaped as a single- or multi-trunk tree.

Each tree carries up to 47,000 seeds, which curl from orange strings in earlike pods, and disperse through canals, creeks, rivers and aggressively encroach on sensitive ecosystems, Minteer said.