Acacia

A short trunk forking into a few limbs under one wide flat crown, with a lower one or two at its sides.

About 5 m tall out in the open.

Where it grows

Land	How many of the trees
Savanna	Four in five

Trees of a kind keep together in stands about 60 m across.

Through the year

It leafs out in spring, its bare twigs budding green first. In autumn its leaves turn butter-yellow to gold, each tree in its own time, then fall pixel by pixel until the crown is bare twigs. It stands bare through the winter. In the warm south, where it never grows cold, it keeps its leaves all year.

In play

Its trunk stops men and horses, who go round it. Wildfire leaves it black and bare, and burnt or felled ground grows back over about four years.