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huizache

English translation: sweet acacia / huisache

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Spanish term or phrase:huizache
English translation:sweet acacia / huisache
Entered by: Cinnamon Nolan

20:42 Jan 25, 2007
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Botany
Spanish term or phrase: huizache
Type of desert plant found in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. Within a list in the text:

La vegetación dominante son los matorrales desérticos tanto rosetófilos como micrófilos. (mezquites, huizaches, gobernadoras, y hojasén entre otros).

There may be no translation; "mezquite" is the same.
Cinnamon Nolan
Spain
Local time: 06:15
sweet acacia
Explanation:
El nombre científico es: Acacia farnesiana

Y este es el enlace con el que pude encontrar los nombres científicos:

http://www.conafor.gob.mx/portal/index.php?s1=3&s2=3&s3=5

Espero que te ayude!
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Patricia Ferreira Larrieux
Italy
Local time: 06:15
Grading comment
Thanks to both of you for your help. I wish I could split the points, but went with Patricia's in the end.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +1huisache
Leonas Merkevičius
4sweet acacia
Patricia Ferreira Larrieux


  

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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
huisache


Explanation:
I found it in Wordreference dicctionary:
huisache
A noun
1 huisache, cassie, mimosa bush, sweet wattle, sweet acacia, scented wattle, flame tree, Acacia farnesiana

tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery



Leonas Merkevičius
Local time: 07:15
Native speaker of: Native in LithuanianLithuanian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  John Speese: I would just go with huisache, I've been to southern Texas where this shrub also grows and that's what everyone called it.
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
sweet acacia


Explanation:
El nombre científico es: Acacia farnesiana

Y este es el enlace con el que pude encontrar los nombres científicos:

http://www.conafor.gob.mx/portal/index.php?s1=3&s2=3&s3=5

Espero que te ayude!

Patricia Ferreira Larrieux
Italy
Local time: 06:15
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks to both of you for your help. I wish I could split the points, but went with Patricia's in the end.
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