- Family : MIMOSACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BABOOL FAMILY (बबूल फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Mimosoideae
- Basionym : Mimosa farnesiana L.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Vachellia farnesiana (L.) Wight & Arn.
- Common name : Fragrant Acacia, Needle Bush
- Vernacular name :
- Dei Babul, Bilati Babul, Wilayati Kikar, Deewana babool (Hindi)
- Kasturi Jali (Kannada)
- Veddayala (Tamil)
- Kasturi, Kasturi Tumma (Telugu)
- Girimeda (Sanskrit)
- Kapur (Oria)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Planted
- Comments / notes : In foothills to 900m. Introduced and cultivated as medicinal plant
- Key identification features : A thorny small tree or shrub with fragrant, bright yellow flower heads
- Flower, Fruit : September-February
- Collection Nos : HJCB-1963
- Collection Locality : On the way to Chandbali, Bhadrak district; Khola, Bhitarkanika, Kendrapara district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Anantapur district, Kurnool district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district
- Kerala : Wayanad district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, DP, Mayurbhanj district, Bhadrak district, Kendrapara district
- Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
- Uttarakhand : Nainital district
- West Bengal : Bankura, Calcutta, Howrah, Jalpaiguri
- Delhi : Delhi
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Native : Alabama, Argentina, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, California, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leewar
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Pantropical
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan
- Saldanha, 1984
- Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state
- Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Acacia farnesiana. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.
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