Acacia nilotica

The plant is commonly known as Gum arabic tree. It grows 5 to 20 meter high. Stem & branches are dark to black in color. The tree has thin, straight, light, grey spines in axillary pairs, mature trees commonly without thorns.

The leaf is bipinnate, tomentose, rachis with a gland at the bottom of the last pair of pinnulae. Flowers in globulous heads are bright golden yellow color, set up either axillary or whorly on peduncles. Pods are strongly constricted, hairy, white-grey, thick and softly tomentose.