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Soapberry tree, is a legume soapberry genus deciduous trees or small trees, up to 30 meters high; branches gray to dark brown; thorns stout, cylindrical, often branched, more conical. Leaves are pinnately compound, margins serrulate, pubescent above, slightly pilose on midvein below; reticulate veins conspicuous, raised on both surfaces; petiolules pubescent. Flowers polygamous, yellow-white, forming racemes; inflorescences axillary or terminal; male flowers with oblong petals.

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Morphological features of soapberry tree:

1, deciduous tree or small tree, up to 30 meters high; branches gray to dark brown; thorns stout, terete, often branched, mostly paniculate, up to 16 centimeters long, the leaf is a one-pinnate compound leaf, 10-18 centimeters long; leaflets 3-9 pairs, papery ovate-lanceolate to oblong, 2-8.5 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, tip rounded.

2. Flowers polygamous, yellow-white, forming racemes; inflorescences axillary or terminal, 5-14 cm long, pubescent; male flowers: 9-10 mm in diameter; pedicels 2-8 mm long; receptacle 2.5-3 mm long, dark brown.

3. The pods are strap-shaped, 12-37 centimeters long, 2-4 centimeters wide, straight or twisted, with a slightly thicker pulp and dropsy on both sides, or some of them are short, more or less columnar, 5-13 centimeters long, 1-1.5 centimeters wide, curved in a crescent shape, often called hog's-tooth soap, with no seeds inside.

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