Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 3
Common names
English Egyptian mimosa; Egyptian thorn; red thorn; scorpion mimosa (Nigeria, McIntosh); babool (India); babul (India); gum arabic (the gum); Gambia pods (the pods, occasionally, Dalziel). French acacia d’Arabie; acacia tannin (Bailleul); gommier rouge. MAURITANIA: ARABIC (Hassaniya) amraya (Aub.) amura (Aub.) SENEGAL: VULGAR nèbnèb (JB) ARABIC (Senegal) amaraya (Aub.; JB) amur (JB) amura (Aub.; JB) salaha (JB) BEDIK a-marεna (FG&G) FULA-PULAAR (Senegal) badulu (JB; K&A) bagana dié (JB) ga
Uses
(bark-gum, young fruit-pods) Food: general (seed) Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavourings (bark, leaf, pods) Medicines: generally healing (bark, root, foliage, pods) Medicines: pain-killers (bark, foliage) Medicines: eye treatments (bark, gum, leaf) Medicines: oral treatments (gum) Medicines: naso-pharyngeal affections (gum, pod) Medicines: pulmonary troubles (foliage, pod) Medicines: stomach troubles (bark, pod) Medicines: diarrhoea, dysentery (leaf) Medicines: anus, haemorrhoids (bark, root) Medicines: genital stimulants/depressants (young shoot, young pods) Medicines: lactation stimulants (incl. veterinary) (pod) Medicines: venereal diseases (bark, pod) Medicines: fabrifuges (bark, pod) Medicines: leprosy (bark) Medicines: brain, nervous system (bark, root, pod) Phytochemistry: tannins, astringents (pod) Phytochemistry: molluscicides Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended Agri-horticulture: hedges, markers (young shoot, young pod, seed) Agri-horticulture: fodder Agri-horticulture: shade-trees (timber, pod) Products: building materials (young bark) Products: fibre (gum, pod, seed) Products: dyes, stains, inks, tattoos and mordants (bark, pod, seed) Products: exudations-gums, resins, etc. (timber) Products: carpentry and related applications (timber) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (wood) Products: fuel and lighting (wood, root) Products: pastimes-carving, musical instruments, games, toys, etc. Products: chew-sticks, etc.
Products
english: Egyptian thornenglish: Red thornenglish: Gambia podsfrench: Gommier rougeenglish: Egyptian mimosafrench: Acacia d’Arabiefrench: Acacia tanninenglish: Gum-arabicenglish: Mimosa, Egyptianenglish: Scorpion mimosaenglish: Mimosa, Scorpionenglish: Baboolenglish: Babulportuguese: Goma arábica
Description
A tree to 13 m high, rarely to 20 m (10a), with short bole, to 90 cm diameter, low-branching and a densely domed crown from near ground level; of damp situations and river-banks, and fairly common across the whole Region. The reader is warned that the sys
References
References:1. Adam, 1966,a. 2. Ainslie, 1937: sp. no. 3, as A. arabica. 3. Akinniyi & Sultanbawa, 1983: 1, as A. nilotica, A. spirocarpa and A. scoriioides [scorpioides]. 4. Arkell, 1936: 322–3. 5. idem, 1939: 253. 6. Aubréville, 1950: 262, 277, as A. sco