Ebenopsis ebano(Berland.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes

Texas Ebony

WFO wfo-0000194309 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ebenopsis ebano, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. a Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-24 / obs. 194901793
Ebenopsis ebano, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. b Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189626895
Ebenopsis ebano, photographed by johnyochum
fig. c johnyochum, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192175978
Ebenopsis ebano, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. d Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194875697
Ebenopsis ebano, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. e Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179848855
Ebenopsis ebano, photographed by Nathan May
fig. f Nathan May, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182656860
Ebenopsis ebano, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. g Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176548487
Ebenopsis ebano, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. h Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 178216612

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 183 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 183 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acacia flexicaulis Benth.
  • Calliandra geniculata Benth.
  • Chloroleucon ebano (Berland.) L.Rico
  • Ebenopsis flexicaulis (Benth.) Britton & Rose
  • Hoopesia arborea Buckley
  • Mimosa ebano Berland.
  • Pithecellobium ebano (Berland.) C.H.Mull.
  • Pithecellobium flexicaule (Benth.) J.M.Coult.
  • Pithecellobium texense J.M.Coult.
  • Pithecolobium flexicaule (Benth.) J.M.Coult.
  • Pithecolobium texense J.M.Coult.
  • Samanea flexicaulis (Benth.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Siderocarpos flexicaulis (Benth.) Small
  • Zygia flexicaulis (Benth.) Sudw.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.