Fortunes are told by pulling off leaflets of a compound leaf, such as the locust, repeating, "Rich man, poor man," etc.
It is never a real compound leaf, though, unless the leaflets are truly separate and all belong on one common stalk.
At the border of the compound leaf zones carrying leaflets and tendrils, mixed leaflet\tendril pairs are frequent, both organs having proper identity.
Each compound leaf ends in a branched tendril.
The leaf is arranged in alternate and is pinnately compound leaf venation.
The leaf lamina is notably pinnatifid with some areas almost being a compound leaf structure.
The compound leaf stem is 3 to 10 cm long, mostly flattened on the top part, with two sharp edges.
