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A small-to-medium-sized shrub (4’-10’) with multiple basal stems flaring outward to form a rounded crown. Huajillo frequently forms dense thickets and has small, inconspicuous, slightly recurved to straight thorns. The narrow, delicate and fernlike, twice - compounded leaves (4”-6”) have 30-50 pairs of leaflets on 5-12 pairs of pinnae.

The blooms are small, round (1/2”+) creamy-white-to-yellow, fragrant flowers. Huajillo is unique to the Edwards Plateau of Texas and South. Generally during the first three weeks of April, bees feed on the blooming huajillo and produce a unique honey very mild and light in color with a remarkably delicious flavor.