Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Acacia leucophloea (Roxb.) Willd.
Family Name	Mimosaceae
Common Name	White Bark Acacia, brewers’ acacia, distiller’s acacia & panicled acacia.
Tamil Name	வெல்வேலம், சாரை, வெல்வேலம்
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	Southeast Asia
Botanical Distribution	Habit: Medium-sized deciduous tree. Aerial, erect, cylindrical, branched, solid, greyish-white and smooth bark in younger parts and blackish-brown and rough bark excorticating in irregular scales in older (black blotches on bark), long spines arising from leaf axils, paired, straight, brown or dark red. Leaves: Bipinnate, pinnae 4-10 pairs, leaflets 12-30 pairs, linear, oblong, glabrous. Flowers: Terminal panicles, Flower heads creamy to pale yellow, complete, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite. Androecium consists of indefinite stamens, exserted. Fruits: Pods flat, linear - oblong slightly curved, yellowish-brown, tomentose. Seeds: 8-12, lodged in separate compartments, spherical, smooth, pale-brown.
Flowering and Fruiting	June - January.
Key Compounds	Gallic acid, Ethyl gallate and Narigenin and Tannin
Medicinal Use	Wood possesses antifungal property
At the Campus	Backside of the NCC office