- Family : MIMOSACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BABOOL FAMILY (बबूल फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System IV) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Mimosoideae
- Basionym : Mimosa farnesiana L.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Vachellia farnesiana (L.) Wight & Arn.
- Common name : Fragrant Acacia, Needle Bush
- Vernacular name :
- Dei Babul, Bilati Babul, Wilayati Kikar, Deewana babool (Hindi)
- Kasturi Jali (Kannada)
- Veddayala (Tamil)
- Kasturi, Kasturi Tumma (Telugu)
- Girimeda (Sanskrit)
- Kapur (Oria)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Planted
- Comments / notes : In foothills to 900m. Introduced and cultivated as medicinal plant
- Key identification features : A thorny small tree or shrub with fragrant, bright yellow flower heads
- Flower, Fruit : September-February
- Collection Nos : HJCB-1963
- Collection Locality : On the way to Chandbali, Bhadrak district; Khola, Bhitarkanika, Kendrapara district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Visakhapatnam district, Anantapur district, Kurnool district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru Urban district, Bengaluru Rural district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagere district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district
- Kerala : Wayanad district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, DP, Mayurbhanj district, Bhadrak district, Kendrapara district
- Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Kancheepuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
- Uttarakhand : Nainital district
- West Bengal : Bankura, Calcutta, Howrah, Jalpaiguri
- Himachal Pradesh : Kullu district, Shimla district
- Delhi : Delhi
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Ross Island, Port Blair
- Native : Alabama, Argentina, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, California, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Louisiana, Mexico, Mississippi, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Islands, Uruguay, Venezuela, Windward Islands
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Pantropical
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan
- Saldanha, 1984
- Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state
- Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 168
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla
- Read more :
- Permalink : https://indiatrees-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Acacia farnesiana
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Trees and Vegetation Types. Acacia farnesiana. Downloaded on 5 October 2026.
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