Acacia senegal - Babula

Babula, Acacia senegal

Acacia senegal is a legume tree from the dry tropics and subtropics. It is valued for the production of gum arabic, the only acacia gum evaluated as a safe food additive. The leaves and pods are browsed by livestock.

Uses

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Parts Used

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Common names

Language	Common name
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Properties

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

Dravya

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Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Habit

Tree

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature
Bipinnate	Alternate	Leaves bipinnate, 3-8 pinnae (glands between uppermost and lowermost pinnae); rachis up to 2.5 cm long; pinnacles are pairs of 8-15, green; 2 stipular spines strongly recurved with a 3rd pseudo-stipular between them.

Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
Bisexual	Axillary spikes	Flowers yellowish-white and fragrant, in cylindrical, axillary pedunculate spikes, 5-10 cm long; calyx of each flower has 5 deep lobes, 5 petals and a mass of short stamens; pistil inconspicuous		{{{5}}}

Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information
Pods	7.5 x 2 cm	green and pubescent when young, maturing to shiny bronze, often with dark patches and bearing prominent veins	seeds 3-6, smooth, flat, rather small, shiny, dark brown.		{{{6}}}

Other features

Mode of Propagation

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Commonly seen growing in areas

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