Another neatly and completely scientific photograph of a common plant Sir Ji. The pods are looking superb
Regards prasad On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Acacia nilotica* (L.) Delile subsp. *indica *(Benth.) Brenan, Kew Bull. > 1957:84. 1957 > syn: *Acacia arabica* var. *indica* Benth.; *Acacia* *nilotica* var. * > indica* (Benth) A. F. Hill > > Tree with rough fissured blackish bark; stipular spines straight, up to 8 > cm long; leaves bipinnate, pinnae up to 11 pairs, with 1-2 glands on > petiole and topmost pair of pinnae; leaflets up to 25 pairs, up to 7 mm > long, linear-oblong; flowers yellow in globose heads occurring 2-6 > together, up to 15 mm across; corolla 2.5-3.5 mm long; pod up to 15 cm > long, distinctly constricted between seeds, white-grayish tomentellous. > > Commonly planted along roadsides, photographed from Vikas Puri, New Delhi, > flowering in August-September. > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- Prasad Kumar Dash Ecologist, Orissa, India email: [email protected] ph. 09437444241
