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Family: Mimosaceae	Genus: Acacia	Species: Acacia leucophloea (Roxb.) Willd.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Mimosa leucophloea Roxb., Acacia arcuata Decne. ,Acacia melanochaetes Zoll., Acacia leucophloea var.melanochaetes Miq.	Flower Color	Yellow - Orange
Common Name	White bark acacia, Panicled acacia	Flower Type	Panicle
English / Trade Name	Distiller's Acacia, White babul	Flowering Period	July-Sept
Vernacular /Local Name	Reru	Fruiting Period	Oct-Dec
Altitude	Upto1000m	Fruit Type	Pod
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	A sessile, flat, elongate pod, rusty tomentose, seeds 10, ovoid, angular
Habitat	Commonly found in hill tracts	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Indo-Malesia. West Pakistan, India , Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Indonesia, Java	Bark Details	Bark pale-gray, Smooth, on old trees becoming Black and rough
Distribution in chandigarh	Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Elliptic
Description of Species	A small or medium sized tree. Bark pale-gray and smooth on young stems, dark brown or blackish. Stipular spines in pairs, straight. Leaflets 10 – 30 pairs, linear, crowded, about 5 × 1 mm. Flowers heads small, pale yellow, sweet scented, in large, terminal, leafless, densely tomentose panicles. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Pods 10 – 15 × 0.6 × 1 cm, narrowly ligulate, with persistent, pale brown tomentum.	Leaf Details	A small or medium sized tree. Bark pale-gray and smooth on young stems, dark brown or blackish. Stipular spines in pairs, straight. Leaflets 10 – 30 pairs, linear, crowded, about 5 × 1 mm. Flowers heads small, pale yellow, sweet scented, in large, terminal, leafless, densely tomentose panicles. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Pods 10 – 15 × 0.6 × 1 cm, narrowly ligulate, with persistent, pale brown tomentum

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