large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States  
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| Jerusalem thorn |   | 
| Parkinsonia aculeata |   | 
| horsebean |   | 
