Acacia pennata - Ballikhadira

Ballikhadira, Acacia pennata

Acacia pennata is a thorny straggling climber that grows in hot and dry forests. It can climb on trees and branch profusely with its long branches.

Uses

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Parts Used

Stem, Leaves, Root.

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada	Kaadu Seege
Hindi	Agla Bel, Biswal, Shembi
Malayalam	Kattusinikka, Peincha, Kareencha
Tamil	Kattintu, Vellai Indu
Telugu	Guba Korinda
Marathi	Shembarati
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit	Ari, Vallikhadira
English	Rusty mimosa

Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Habit

Climber

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature
Bipinnate	Alternate	branchlets, rachises and inflorescence densely, minutely, light brown tomentellous; the branches and the underside of the rachises with recurved, hooked, smooth prickles, those on the branchlets 2-4 mm long, their base broad. Leanes alternate, bipinnate; rachis up to 15 cm long with 4 cm petiolar part which has scattered c. 1 mm long prickles and a large, flattish, oval gland near its base; smaller, more rounded flattened glands are found between the bases of the upper 1-3 pairs of pinnae; pinnae 7-18 pairs, up to 4 cm long with slender, sparsely tomentellous rachillae without thorns; leaflets sessile, chartaceous, overlapping, usually glabrous with fimbriate margins, very small, 30-50 pairs, very narrow, linear, base oblique, midrib diagonal, running along and very near the margins, 2-3 x 0.5-1 mm, mucronate.

Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
Bisexual	Axillary and terminal panicles of heads	Creamish white		Flower heads globose, 1-3 together in leaf axils and these combined into a terminal, many-umbelled panicles, up to 20 cm long, densely pale brown tomentellous. Heads 1-2 cm diameter. Flowers subsessile; bracts spathulate, apical part fimbriate. Buds brown red. Calyx thin, campanulate, 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous or very minutely and shortly pilose, the teeth distinct, 1 mm long, brown red. Corolla hardly 1 mm longer than the calyx, light green, the tips of the lobes green or red brown.

Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information
Pods	15-20 x 2-3 cm		strap-shaped, flat with slightly raised sutures, smooth, reddish brown, thin, the suture straight with few or no indents, dehiscent, along both sutures, distinctly stalked, apex acute	seeds 6-12, flat, round; the pod slightly bullate over the seeds.

Mode of Propagation

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Commonly seen growing in areas

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