English: Babul tree; Indian Gum Arabic tree.
Sanskrit: Barbara, Vavari
Indian: Babul.
Region: India.
Habitat: deciduous forest.
Content: tannin.
Use: medicinal use in Ayurveda of bark, gum, leaves, resin, root, seed pods.
BotanyTree; 5 to 20 m high; dense spheric crown.
Stems: branches usually dark to black coloured; fissured bark; grey-pinkish slash; exuding a reddish low quality gum; with thin, straight, light, grey spines in axillary pairs, usually in 3 to 12 pairs, 5 to 8 cm long in young trees, mature trees commonly without thorns.