Acacia will cornigera

Tropical and subtropical tree of the family of leguminous plants. Acacia will cornigera is one of Acacia with an exceptional characteristic: he lives a long time only in Symbiose with a colony of Fourmi S (of the species Pseudomyrmex ferruginea ); its structure even interns is especially conceived to shelter such a colony (only these ants, having a regenerating saliva can enter in symbiosis with this acacia). Those evacuate all the caterpillars, plant louses, slugs, spiders and other xylophagous which encumber its foliages. Each morning, they cut to the mandible ivies and other climbing plants which would like to parasitize the tree.

Consequently, to attract the myrmécéennes, the tree, with the passing of years, was moulted in a giant anthill. All its branches are hollow and, in each one, a network of corridors and rooms are planned only for the comfort of the ants. In these corridors also live white plant louses whose honeydew makes the delight of the ants. A princess ant in the search of a new territory will be able to thus settle there in order to found her own city after the act of love. Moreover, it can secrete a feeder liquid adapted perfectly to the couvains. Thanks to the work of its allied ants, the Acacia will cornigera rises with the top of the mass of the other trees which could make him shade. It dominates their summits and thus collects directly the rays of the sun.

It was more largely revealed with the public by the French author Bernard Werber in his Encyclopédie of the relative and absolute knowledge (p. 48). It is also evoked on several occasions in the day of the ants and the Revolution of the ants.

See too

Acacia collinsii

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