Fabaceae FAMILY

Vachellia kirkii

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

Especially in times of drought, many Acacia species can concentrate high levels of the toxin Hydrogen cyanide in their foliage, making them dangerous for herbivores to eat.

Botanical Description

Vachellia kirkii is a multi-stemmed shrub ot a tree with a spreading, flat-topped crown; it can grow from 2.5 - 15 metres tall, occasionally reaching 18 metres[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and source of materials.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Guinea, Mali, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe

HabitatWoodland, 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[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ].