Acacia flowers are white-yellow in color, look like a Uyghur girl's braid, and smell sweet and fragrant.

Acacia flowers are multiple flowers, racemes, butterfly-shaped corolla, in full bloom in clusters, overlapping and hanging. Florets more crumpled and curled, petals scattered, complete calyx campanulate, yellow-green, apex 5 lobed; petals to yellow or yellow-white common, there are other colors such as purplish-red, usually a piece of the larger, suborbicular, apex concave, the remaining 4 pieces oblong.

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Acacia flowers can be eaten. Often planted on the side of the house, roadside, commonly cultivated throughout China, mainly in the north, to the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain for more, usually in April and May each year to bloom, the flowering period is usually about 10-15 days. The acacia flowers have good ornamental value, every time the flowering season comes, a string of white acacia flowers decorated with branches, the air is filled with a light vegetative fragrance, refreshing.

The acacia flowers taste sweet, rich in vitamins and a variety of minerals, but also has a heat detoxification, cool blood and lungs, lowering blood pressure, the efficacy of the prevention of stroke. After picking it can do soup, mixed vegetables, stew, can also do acacia cake, dumplings, the most common in daily life is steamed acacia flowers.