Gum Arabic Tree Acacia nilotica 20 Seeds

The gum arabic tree is a legume tree from the dry tropics and subtropics. It is valued for the production of gum Arabic. The leaves and pods are browsed by livestock. The gum arabic tree is a low branching, small, and spiny tree, which grows up to 7-15 m in height with a girth of about 1.3 m. It has a rounded, flat-topped crown. The tree is deciduous, dropping its leaves during the dry season. Under dry conditions, the taproot develops to a great depth allowing the tree to become larger than usual. The trunk is about 30 cm in diameter and is covered by a greyish-white bark that becomes dark, scaly and thin in old trees. The tree bears prickly branches, armed with three hooked thorns, up to 7 mm long, just below the nodes. The leaves are pinnately compound, 3.5-8 cm long. Their rachis may be spiny. The leaflets are linear to oblong, 1-9 mm long and 0.5-3 mm wide. They may be sparsely hairy and a pale glaucous green in color. The yellowish-white and fragrant flowers are borne on cylindri