Sweet Thorn

Acacia karoo

Inclusion rationale

Why did we include this species on our website? Because it was mentioned in the following source(s):

• PlantZAfrica

Features data

The following sources have provided data on features for this species.

Source document	Features
PlantZAfrica Dec. 17, 2025, 10:47 a.m.	Supports birds Supports mammals Supports butterflies Supports bees Useful Medicinal Edible Attractive Rocky habitat Sun Pioneer species

Photo credits

You can see the credits underneath each photo of the species pages as well. Credits, in order of appearance:

• no rights reserved, uploaded by Riaan Stals source
• (c) grinnin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by grinnin source
• (c) Igmar Grewar, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Igmar Grewar source
• (c) lougarou, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by lougarou source
• no rights reserved, uploaded by Riaan Stals source
• (c) Matthew Fainman, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Matthew Fainman source
• (c) lougarou, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by lougarou source
• (c) Vera De Cauwer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Vera De Cauwer source
• (c) Craig Peter, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Craig Peter source
• (c) Botswanabugs, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Botswanabugs source