Vachellia nilotica
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Vachellia nilotica
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wild or cultivated
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BABOOL-BARK. GUM ARABIC TREE. SUNTWOOD. North and central Africa and Southwest Asia. It furnishes a gum arable of superior quality[1]. The bark, in times of scarcity, is ground and mixed with flour in India[2], and the gum, mixed with the seeds of sesame, is an article of food with the natives[3]. The gum serves for nourishment, says Humboldt[4], to several African tribes in their passages through the dessert. In Barbary, the tree is called atteleh.
