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Acacia pennata - Ballikhadira
Acacia pennata is a large scrambling or climbing shrub. It is native to South, and South-East Asia, and found throughout India up to 1700 meters in the Himalayas. It is a very useful plant with edible leaves.
Uses
Parts Used
Chemical Composition
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 | Shembarat |
Gujarathi | NA |
Punjabi | NA |
Kashmiri | NA |
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 |
---|---|---|
Bipinnate | Elliptic | Leaf Arrangement is Alternate - spiral, Leaf Apex is Acute, Leaf Base is Truncate and Leaf Margin is Entire. |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
A stipitate pod | 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 8-12, 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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References
- ↑ ["Chemistry"]
- ↑ "Morphology"
- ↑ [ "Cultivation"]
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- Ayurvedic Herbs known to be helpful to treat Stomache ache
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