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Sickle Bush
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Sickle Bush
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Common name: Sickle Bush ashy babool • Assamese: বীৰবৃক্ষ beerbrikshya • Gujarati: મરૂઢ marud, મોરઢુંઢયુ mordhundhayu, વેલતુર veltur • Hindi: खेरी kheri, कुणाली kunali, शमी shami, वेलाटी velati, वीरतरु virataru • Kachchhi: કીની ખેરડી kini kheradi • Kannada: ಎಡತರಿ edatari, ಒದವಿನ Odavina, ಒಡತರೆ Odatare, ಶಮಿ shami, ವದವಿನ vadavina, ವಡುವಾರದ ಮರ vaduvarada mara • Konkani: सिगम कांटी sigam kamti • Malayalam: വെടതല vetatala, വീരവൃക്ഷം veeravriksham • Marathi: दुरंगी बाभूळ durangi babhul, सिगम काटी sigam kati • Rajasthani: गोया खैर goya khair • Sanskrit: बहुवारक bahuvaraka, दीर्घमूल dirghamula, महाकपित्थ mahakapittha, वीरतरु virataru, वीरवृक्ष viravriksha • Tamil: ஆனைத்தேர் anai-t-ter, வரித்துலா varittula, வெடுத்தலாம் vetuttalam, வீரதரு vira-taru, விடத்தேரை vitatterai • Telugu: వెలుతురుఛెట్టు veluturuchettu • Tulu: ಶಮಿ shami Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Dichrostachys cinerea    Family: Mimosaceae (Touch-me-not family)
Synonyms: Cailliea glomerata, Dichrostachys glomerata, Mimosa cinerea
Sickle bush is a beautiful, small Mimosa-related tree, growing up to 8 m tall. It has bipinnate leaves, 4-8 cm long, 5 to 15 pairs of pinnae, each with 12 to 30 pairs of leaflets. It blooms with beautiful bottle-brush like flower heads which are half pink and half yellow. The rear pink part fades to white with time. The buds look like beautiful pink and yellow mulberry fruits. The fruit-pod is narrowly oblong, variously curved and/or coiled, 5-7 cm long, 0.8-1.5 cm wide, blackish, glabrous. Sickle bush is native to India, SE Asia, Africa and Northern Australia. Flowering: June-August.
Identification credit: Tabish Photographed in Niti Bagh, Delhi.
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