Tenaza
Havardia pallens
Tenaza is a graceful, fine-leaved legume tree of south Texas with fragrant cream puffball flowers off and on through the warm season. A nitrogen-fixing, drought-proof small shade tree.
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 10–20 ft
- Spacing
- 10–15 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- May, June, July, August
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, larval host
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- TX