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== Description ==
== Popular names ==
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== Classification ==
== Uses ==
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|text=BABOOL-BARK. GUM ARABIC TREE. SUNTWOOD. North and central Africa and Southwest Asia. It furnishes a gum arable of superior quality<ref>U. S. Disp. 6. 1865.</ref>. The bark, in times of scarcity, is ground and mixed with flour in India<ref>Brandis, ''D. Forest Fl.'' 182. 1874.</ref>, and the gum, mixed with the seeds of sesame, is an article of food with the natives<ref>Drury, H. ''Useful Pls. Ind.'' 5. 1858.</ref>. The gum serves for nourishment, says Humboldt<ref>Humboldt, A. ''Polit. Essay New Spain'' 2:423. 1811.</ref>, to several African tribes in their passages through the dessert. In Barbary, the tree is called ''atteleh''.
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|author =[[Acacia (Sturtevant, 1919)#Acacia arabica|Sturtevant, ''Notes on edible plants'', 1919]].
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== References ==