Examples from literature

• He asked her to sit beside him beneath the acacia. 
• Outside, only the higher branches of the acacias were touched by the setting sun. 
• The little pond of which I have spoken at the head of the pass, had near it a beautiful clump of acacias of a species entirely new to us. 
• Then I caught a glimpse of gold from the laburnums, of purple from the lilacs, of white from the sweet acacia trees. 
• They are principally bounded with various trees of the pine tribe, intermingled with laurel and acacia.