Acacia pennata - Ballikhadira

Ballikhadira, Acacia pennata

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

Stomach ache.

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	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.

Habit

Climber

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.

Mode of Propagation

Seeds

Commonly seen growing in areas

Forests, Avoiding drier regions, Chiefly along rivers, Ravines, At elevations.

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External Links

• Acacia pennata on herbpathy.com
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