Botanical Name - Mimosa rubicaulis

----- M. rubicaulis, Linn.; F.B.I. II-291. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 263. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 290. Vern. Undrug, Tel.

----- A straggling prickly shrub, pubescent; branches petioles and peduncles armed with short, curved, sharp prickles. Pinnae 3-12 paris, the lowest often not exactly opposite; leaflets 6-15 pairs, obliquely-oblong, the mid-rib lateral. Flowers minute, tetramerous, pink, in fasciculate pedunculate heads. Calyx campanulate, shortly toothed. Petals connate towards the base. Stamens twice the number of petals exserted, free. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled. Pods stipitate, glabrous, curved, 3-4 in. long, separating in square joints from the sutural frame; sutures generally without prickles. Seeds 6-10.

----- Common in all forests. Wood used for charcoal for fun powder.