mimosae

Of the 4 species of ants that are in mutualistic relations with acacia trees, one, Crematogaster mimosae, occupies ~52% of host trees under natural conditions.

Archive 2008-01-01 AYDIN 2008

Also, facing reductions in nectar production, the previously dominant ant species C. mimosae turned to tending scale insects that may have also harmed the trees by feeding on their sap.

Archive 2008-01-01 AYDIN 2008

Of the 4 species of ants that are in mutualistic relations with acacia trees, one, Crematogaster mimosae, occupies ~52% of host trees under natural conditions.

Mutualistic complexities AYDIN 2008

Also, facing reductions in nectar production, the previously dominant ant species C. mimosae turned to tending scale insects that may have also harmed the trees by feeding on their sap.

Mutualistic complexities AYDIN 2008

(Crematogaster mimosae) was weakened and eventually overrun by another ant species (Crematogaster sjostedti).

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

The leaves of indigenous trees were all drooping, soft, and shriveled, though not dead; and those of the mimosae were closed at midday, the same as they are at night.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

These are generally covered with wild date-trees and palmyras, and in some parts there are forests of mimosae and mopane.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Instead of the laurel-leaved trees of various kinds, we have African ebonies, acacias, and mimosae: the grass is shorter and more sparse, and we can move along without wood-cutting.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

The _chapparal_, with its thorny thicket of acacias, mimosae, ingas, and robinias -- a perfect maze of leguminous trees -- hems it in; and so near is the verge of this jungle, that I can distinguish its undergrowth of stemless

The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

If the eye was turned from the world of foliage above, to the ground beneath, it was attracted by the extreme elegance of the leaves of the ferns and mimosae.

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845