Talk:Vachellia cornigera

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Requesting an image showing ant mutualism

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Some Suggestions
It appears that you are trying to describe the Acacia cornigera plant itself, however you seem to talk more about the ant that lives with the tree. My first suggestion would be to add additional information about the tree - leaf type, colors, sizes, soil types, etc... I would also recommend adding pictures - the ant, the tree and how they work together. A picture of their leaves and their nutrient nuggets might be interesting too.

Under the Uses Heading, I would suggest clarifying whether these rememdies could still be used today and if so, what would you look for? Also, how did the indians get the thorns if the ant sting is a good deterrent from predators.

I would add too that you should reread through the article itself. Some sentences are slightly unclear, such as the first sentence of the second paragraph under mutualism. This paragraph could also benefit from a break point before it starts talking about the ant pheromones.

--Massonika 06:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Additionally: Might consider adding:

Solarone 15:40, 7 April 2006 (UTC)solarone
 * That the Beltain bodies have no known function other than to provide food for the symbiotic ants.
 * It would be interesting to highlight your mutualistic reference with one that is not. How some ant colonies are rival enemies, occupying separate trees and if contact with one another is made they will fight each other with the loser being forced out of their tree.

Thanks for the suggestions
I had a picture on the page, but unfortunately, it was deleted due to copyright issues.I'm not quite sure how to get around that one. I fixed the 2 confusing sentences. Regarding the acacia's leaf structure, this article is a subheading of the general Acacia itself and I didn't want to duplicate information. I added a new paragraphy discussing the pheremones.

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Evaluation of Page
The material presented is not well organized. It is not cohesive and is very broken up into sections. It doesn't have a very good flow. The information that is presented is relevant and understandable. The sources are outdated and one of the source's links does not work. There is more recent information available. There are a lot of links to other Wikipedia articles. There can be more information added to this article.

The article does have an introduction but it doesn't do a good job of summarizing the article and its contents. The leading paragraph does not briefly describe the article's sections. There are a few headings and subheadings but the majority of them only have a few sentences underneath.

The article talks more about the symbiotic relationship between the ants and the trees than it does the actual tree structure. The only description of the tree is about the thorns. The article does not talk about the tree structure, leaf shape, and thorn shape. The majority of the article focuses on the ants.

The pictures are good but there can be more pictures added to help describe the plant. There is also better pictures of the ants mentioned.

The coverage is unbiased and doesn't show any signs of bias. There is no attempts at persuading the audience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joannagallagher00 (talk • contribs) 14:41, 3 March 2020 (UTC)