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The
Desert Economy plantation Babul |
Description
of Babul Tree
A large thorny (with
straight sharp pointed spikes ocurring in pairs beneath the petioles) tree up to Height, 3-10 ft., width up to 15 ft
,bark dull grey.
Fissured when old, crown dense; tree puts out leaves during dry season and sheds them during rains; branchlets light grey, spiny only at nodes, spines straight, up to 1 in. long; leaves pale and glaucous, bluish grey, glabrous or pubescent, 2-pinnate, 9 to numerous pairs of pinnae, cup-like glands on rachis, each pinna with 12 or more pairs of leaflets, leaflets oblong, up to 1 cm long, hairy, unequal at base.
Flowers in yellow spikes 10–12.5 cm long, in rounded heads, auxiliary , supported upon short
peduncles , with bracts above the middle.
Pods - Stalked, straight, persistently grey with
fissures between the 8-12 seeds.
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Leaves of
Babul Flower
Bark |
Picture of a Wild Babul Tree |
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The Babul
tree constitutes of following parts which can be used : 1)
The Bark 2)
Leaves 3)
Flowers 4)
Pods 5)
The Gum |
