Acacia anegadensis . It is a very thorny shrub or small tree. Its leaves are divided into up to four pairs of small leaflets. Clusters of small flowers form bright yellow groups. Its curved pods (fruits) are typical of the legume family (peas and beans), and they open, releasing the seeds.
Summary
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- 1 Ecology
- 2 Uses
- 3 Danger of Extinction, Threats and Conservation of the Poke-me-boy
- 4 Source
Ecology
Few trees are under greater threat from sea level rise due to climate change than Acacia anegadensis, which is found almost exclusively in one of the British Virgin Islands (Anegada), which lies only 8 m above the Caribbean Sea.
Applications
Currently it is not used, but it has been possible to verify in reports and in old books of the locals that in the past it was cut to obtain its wood, and its resin was used for the repairs of the hull and deck of ships.
Poke-me-boy’s Danger of Extinction, Threats and Conservation
Acacia anegadensis is currently Critically Endangered according to the Red List published by the IUCN. Its habitat is reduced to too small a range (less than 10 square kilometers) in which it has to deal with the creation of hotels and houses. It is the most threatened tree in the world due to global warming, since it lives a few meters above sea level on the island of Anegada, and this sea level may increase due to the climate change that the world suffers.
A second population of Pokemeboy was discovered in Fallen Jerusalem that does not have this sea level problem, and said island is already a National Park in which it cannot be built.
