Acacia (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Acacia

Caption

Extrafloral nectaries (circles at the base of the leave) and protein-rich Beltian bodies (yellow structures) produced in swollen-thorn acacias (Vachellia collinsii) as rewards for their mutualistic ants.

Credit

Sabrina Amador

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