| DESCRIPTION: Small tree or shrub with a spreading canopy, blackish, striated rough bark and reddish slash. Leaves bi-pinnate 3-7 cm long, with 20-30 pairs of leaflets. Flowers white, in racemes 2.5-6.0 cm long, shorter than the leaves. Fruit oblong, flattened, glabrous, 3.0-8.0 x 1.5-2.5 cm, pale brown, papery. USE: Browsing, Service wood, Fuel wood, Charcoal, Fiber (roots), Medicine (anti diarrhetic), soil and land rehabilitation. GROWING PERIOD: Perennial. COMMON NAMES: Gum Arabic. FURTHER INF: Sudanian and Guinean ecozones, in relatively moist soil conditions in the southern Sahel (valleys floors, around ponds etc.). Found on medium to fine-textured soils. |