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Vachellia jacquemontii is a spiny, drought-tolerant shrub or small tree from the Thar Desert of India and Pakistan, valued for stabilising sand dunes. It is grown as a desert or xeriscape plant where it stays frost-free and gets full sun with very little water.
Vachellia jacquemontii is a species of plant native to the Thar Desert of India and Pakistan. The species name refers to French botanist Victor Jacquemont. It grows as an erect shrub or small tree, usually 6 feet (1.8 m) to 10 feet (3.0 m) high, with multiple shoots coming from below ground.
This plant has a number of traditional medicinal uses, including treatment of snakebite, induction of abortion, and for chronic renal disease.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vachellia jacquemontii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
