Senegalia erubescens (welw. ex Oliv.) Kyal. & Boatwr.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Senegalia

Characteristics

A tree which loses many of its leaves during the year. It is a shrub or small tree. It can grow to 6 m tall. It may have one or many stems. The leaves are yellowish green to grey-green. The bark peels off the trunk. The bark is corky or papery. The young branches are often grey or white. The thorns are short and hooked. They occur in pairs and are very sharp. They are often bluish in colour. The leaves are 4-5 cm long and have about 5 pairs of side branches with 20 pairs of leaflets. The flowers are fat yellow sweet scented spikes. The pods occur in bunches. They are 4-10 cm long and 1.3 cm wide. They are straight, flat, pointed and papery. They are dark brown and are criss-crossed with a network of veins. The edges are thick. The gum is yellow and sweet.
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Shrub, often with many stems, or a tree to 10 m high; trunk to 0.3 diam.; crown often flattened and spreading somewhat. Bark pale to dark yellowish-or greyish-brown, rough, the outer layer papery and flaking or peeling off; young branchlets yellowish-or greyish-brown to purplish, puberulous to pubescent, sometimes glabrous, Shrub, often with many stems, or a tree to 10 m high; trunk to 0.3 diam.; crown often flattened and spreading somewhat. Bark pale to dark yellowish-or greyish-brown, rough, the outer layer papery and flaking or peeling off; young branchlets yellowish-or greyish-brown to purplish, puberulous to pubescent, sometimes glabrous, Seeds olive-brown, usually subcircular, 7-11 x 7-11 mm, compressed; areole 1-3 x 2-4.5 mm, horseshoe shaped.
Shrub or tree, up to 10 m high. Prickles in pairs below nodes. Leaf rhachis usually with gland at junction of some of the pinnae pairs or top pinna pair only; leaflets often falcate; petiole 12-25 mm long. Flowers yellowish white.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 6.0 - 7.5
Root system -
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Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Drier types of mixed deciduous woodland often with mopane or scrub, often on rocky outcrops or on sandy river banks; lowveld on gneissic soils or on shallow, gravelly soils or red clays; at elevations from 240-1,680 metres.
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It grows in tropical and warm places. It does best in deep sands. It grows in areas with an annual rainfall between 100-520 mm. It cannot tolerate frost. It can grow in arid places.
Light -
Soil humidity 1-12
Soil texture 5-8
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The gum is eaten raw and is very sweet. The bark is used to help milk curdle.
Uses animal food bee plant environmental use food food additive fuel gene source gum material medicinal
Edible barks gums
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
Mode seedlings
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Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
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Productivity -

Distribution

Senegalia erubescens world distribution map, present in Angola, Botswana, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, United Republic of, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Conservation status

Senegalia erubescens threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77130781-1
WFO ID wfo-0001425572
COL ID 4WNXY
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Acacia erubescens Acacia kwebensis Acacia longepetiolata Acacia dulcis Senegalia erubescens