Botanical Name - Mimosa hamata

----- M. hamata, Willd.; F.B.I. II-291. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 263. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 290. Vern. Undrug, Tel. Arkur, Mar.

----- A straggling prickly shrub, with a reddish-brown fibrous thin bark. Pinnae 3-4 pairs. Leaflets 6-10 pairs, mid-rib near the middle of leaflets. Sutures armed with numerous hooked prickles.

----- Very common in the forests, on field-boundries and often on black cotton soil in abandoned cultivation. It makes a good hedging material.