Vachellia cornigera, commonly known as bullhorn acacia (family Fabaceae), is a swollen-thorn tree and myrmecophyte native to Mexico and Central America
Ebinger—Whitethorn acacia, Mescat acacia Vachellia cookii (Saff.) Seigler & Ebinger—Cook acacia, cockspur acacia Vachellia cornigera (L.) Seigler & Ebinger—bullhorn
Central America: Pseudomyrmex ferruginea: Vachellia allenii, V. chiapensis, V. collinsii, V. cookii, V. cornigera, V. gentlei, V. globulifera, V. hindsii
found in the stems. N,N-dimethyltryptamine N-oxide is also present. Vachellia cornigera: psychoactive. Tryptamines and DMT, according to C. Rastch. Acacia
ferruginea) is an obligate plant ant that protects several species of "Acacia" (Vachellia) from preying insects and from other plants competing for sunlight, and
least 5 species of "Acacia", now all renamed to Vachellia: V. chiapensis, V. collinsii, V. cornigera, V. hindsii, and V. sphaerocephala. van der Pijl
herbivores and other competing plants by their ant symbionts. Acacia cornigera, for example, is thoroughly guarded by its obligate ant partner, Pseudomyrmex
related trees and their ant partners. The bullhorn acacia tree, Vachellia cornigera, grows inflated hollow spines at the base of its leaves that serve
in Vachellia with large thorns resembling a bull's horns: Vachellia collinsii, native to Central America and parts of Africa Vachellia cornigera, native
1773 based on the African species Acacia nilotica, now classified as Vachellia nilotica. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny. Most Australian