Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Babul may refer to: Babul, Iran, a city in Mazandaran Province, Iran; Babul (tree) (Acacia nilotica), the gum arabic tree, an acacia native to India, Pakistan, and Africa; Babul (Hindi word) (or Baabul), an archaic Hindi word for father used in songs "Babul", a song by Raamlaxman and Sharda Sinha from the 1994 Indian film Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!
Vachellia nilotica, more commonly known as Acacia nilotica, and by the vernacular names of gum arabic tree, [5] babul, [6] thorn mimosa, Egyptian acacia or thorny acacia, [7] is a flowering tree in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.
Babul (Hindi: बाबुल, Pronounced: bəˈbo͞ol) is an old Hindi term for father indicating a daughter's affection and used in Indian literature at the separations of fathers and daughters. The term is now mainly used in Bollywood songs in the context of a newly married daughter leaving her father's home.
Leucaena leucocephala is a small fast-growing mimosoid tree native to southern Mexico and northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) [1] [4] and is now naturalized throughout the tropics including parts of Asia. Common names include white leadtree, [5] white popinac, [1] horse tamarind, [1] ipil-ipil, [6] [7] koa haole, [8] and tan-tan. [9]
Invasive N. juliflora in Tamil Nadu, India A young specimen in Ab Pakhsh. Neltuma juliflora (Spanish: bayahonda blanca, Cuji in Venezuela, Trupillo in Colombia, Aippia in the Wayuunaiki language and long-thorn kiawe [1] in Hawaii), formerly Prosopis juliflora, is a shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae, a kind of mesquite. [2]
The tree is the source of Indian gum, also known as ghatti gum, which is used for calico printing among other uses. The leaves are also fed on by the Antheraea paphia moth which produces the tassar silk ( Tussah ), a form of wild silk of commercial importance.
The name Lebbeck is from the Arabic word (لَبَّخ). [5] Albizia is named after Francesco Albizzi, an Italian naturalist. It is also commonly referred to as siris, its Hindi name. [8] In the West Indies and certain parts of South America this tree is known as a 'Shak Shak Tree' because of the sound the seeds make in the pod.
It is a deciduous tree with bright pink to light purple flowers. [4] The name "Queen's Flower" is derived from the specific epithet 'reginae' or 'flosreginae', which means "imperial or flower of the queen". The tree bears beautiful attractive flowers in profusion in purple, lilac or pinkish-violet colours, and lasts for many months.