Botanical Name - Acacia intsia

----- A. Intsia, Willd., F.B.I. II-297. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 268. Gamble's Ind. Trees 300. (Syn A. caesia, W. & A). Vern. Korinta, Tel.

----- A large climbing shrub. Bark pale grey with usually fine fluted, spirally-twisted grooves. Branchlets and petioles angular, with numerous short, conical, sharp, prickles. Leaflets 10-30 pairs, coriaceous more or less pubescent, pale or rust-coloured beneath, 1/4 in. long., obliquely linear or oblong, obtuse or acute, nerves distinct, midrib nearer the middle than the upper edge; pinnae 6-16 pairs. Flowers-heads pale yellow in terminal tomentose, panicles; bracts minute, caducous. Pods thin, 4-6 in. by 1 in., tomentose when young, glabrous afterwards.

----- A common climber in almost all forests which are not too dry. It climbs over the tallest trees and should be destroyed everywhere. The wood is white, soft and porous and is said to be valueless. Flowers April to August. A. Intsia is believed by Gamble ("Indian Timbers") to be a district species from A.caesia, but Brandis' in "Indian Trees" disagrees with the opinion.