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Fakara Plants
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MIMOSACEAE
(Broadly FABACEAE)
Acacia nilotica   (L.) Willd. ex Del.
Zarma name: bani, baani
A common acacia species with yellow flowers.
Uses: Food (grain), medicine (pods, grain), fodder (leaves), fence material (branch)
Notes: The seed is pounded and added to a millet porridge (donu) to give it a flavour.
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1. Habit
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2. Flowering shoot 3. Young pods
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