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Acacia pennata - Ballikhadira
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
Chemical Composition
Common names
Language | Common name |
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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.
Dravya
Rasa
Guna
Veerya
Vipaka
Karma
Prabhava
Habit
Identification
Leaf
Kind | Shape | Feature |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
Other features
List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used
Where to get the saplings
Mode of Propagation
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How to plant/cultivate
Commonly seen growing in areas
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Photo Gallery
References
- ↑ ["Chemistry"]
- ↑ "Morphology"
- ↑ [ "Cultivation"]
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