Vachellia kirkii (Oliv.) Kyal. & Boatwr.

A flat topped shrub or small tree. It grows 2-15 m high. It can have one or many stems. It loses its leaves during the year. The bark is yellow to brown. It peels off showing green to yellow bark underneath. There are spines in pairs. They are 4-8 mm long. The leaves are made up of 6-14 pairs of larger leaflets and 7-20 pairs of small leaflets. These are narrow. The flowers are in heads and are yellow or white. The fruit are straight pods. They are 2-10 cm long by 0.8-2 cm wide. There are 2 seeds. There is a small point on the top.

Woodland, wooded grassland, mixed scrub; often in seasonally flooded alluvium by rivers and lakes, riverine or ground-water forest, swamp-forest; on nutrient-rich, silty kaolinitic clay to black cracking clays; at elevations to 1,980 metres.

The bark is used to make tea. It is also used to curdle milk. The gum or resin is edible.

It can be cut back and will re-grow.