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Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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Posted by jolanaweb 8 Bas.Co,TX (My Page) on Wed, Nov 4, 09 at 8:50
I have seen these trees in the hill country here and there to the south where they are thicker. Well, I believe they are Cassia that keep getting thicker the further south you go.
So they should grow here in Bastrop Co., right? I really like their looks, are there problems with them.
If they aren't Acacia, what are they ?
Thanks
jolana |
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RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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I think they grow anywhere. They grow here, Yorktown, the valley. Maybe not in East Texas and the piney woods. They like poor soil.
Tally HO! |
RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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| Thanks Tally, I certainly have plenty of that, LOL |
RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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| They grow all over Fayette and Colorado counties. They are taking over my back pasture at my house. I've been fighting them for years. Deer spread them like wildfire. If you travel to La Grange, you will see them throughout the county. I think I remember seeing a pasture full outside of Smithville also. Kt |
RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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| They grow in Austin, but I think that that is about as far north that they go. An occasion bad cold front every few years will kill them but not the ones in the protected spots. I had one by my house by Mopac and the river. It suffered some die back in a cold snap but survived. |
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| In the late 60's I lived on Huisache St. Does that count? |
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| I once worked with a girl that said she grew and ate huisache' for years. I finally realized, as did she, that the huisache that she ate, were actually called satsumas.......strange woman. |
RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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| Living on Huisache street counts but Satsuma doesn't, lol I said Cassia above but meant Cassie, that is what someone I know calls them |
RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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- Posted by pris 8B TX (My Page) on
Fri, Nov 13, 09 at 11:52
| My Mother had what she called a Huisache at the edge of the driveway in her back yard years ago. If it truly was a Huisache, then something dropping from it, sap or leaves I don't know, took the paint off the car. I was a kid at the time so I can't swear to it. I do know they took the tree out after having the car repainted. |
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| I don't get the satsuma - huisache connection Kt, she called the huisache a satsuma? Pris, I haven't heard that but will check into it before I buy it. Maybe it was aphids in the tree dripping their .... |
RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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| Yes, Jo, she called satsumas, huisache. I brought some satsumas to work once to share with them, and she said, "Wow, look at all those huisache! I love to eat them but can never find them in stores or anyone who grows them." Well, I guess not if she was asking for huisache! Those thorns might be a bit hard on the gums... Kt |
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| LOL -- I can empathize with that lady because I am always getting words down wrong. One foreign sounding word seems as good as another sometimes ... hahaha! Jolana, you were going to see a man about some Huisache trees last week. How did that go? |
RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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| Roselee, he didn't show up where he was supposed to be and hasn't replied to my emails. I'll try a couple of more times tho, lol |
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| Hey Jolana, if you like I can dig up 2 or 3 baby huisache this Fri.eve, and take them to you I am going to Victoria this Sat, so we can arrange to meet at walmarts parking lot.They grow wild out here (giddings there is a field that the a farmer is going to clear and he has some small ones growing BIG ONES TOO. Let me know so that I can make arrangements with the farmer. |
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| Marcie, that is a sweet offer. What Walmart? In Giddings? Or Bastrop? I don't know if I can get to Giddings |
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Marcie, I got an email from the tree guy and am heading that way today to look at them
Thanks for the offer tho
jolana |
RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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| I saw some outside of Smithville the other day. Kt |
RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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| Well, the ones he had didn't have good roots on them. I think he dug them up and not well. I'm going to stop in Paige and dig one, lol |
RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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| Hi sorry about not coming back earlier today!! But anyway I was not thinking clearly, Victoria meant or means hwy77!!!However since it was raining I could not get to the trees but tomorrow morning should stop raining, and so I will be able to get some and so I am planing on that. Then I will come here and post, and then we can arrange to meet at Bastrop Wallyworld. Unless you already got your tree, let me know tomorrow when I post back in here, the exchange will not take place till Sunday evening. Later M |
RE: Huisache Tree (Acacia)
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Hi Marcie, I got a baby and expecting another from another friend. While proofing see that some wise acres could make a joke of the phrasing, lol
Have fun
Thanks again tho |
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