Vachellia gerrardi is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a shrub or tree native to seasonally-dry and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa from Burkina Faso to Ethiopia, Namibia, and KwaZulu Natal, and to the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, southern Israel, and Sinai Peninsula in southwestern Asia.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Red Thorn being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Vachellia luederitzii
- Vachellia robusta
- Vachellia grandicornuta
- Vachellia nilotica
- Vachellia schaffneri
- Vachellia natalitia
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Vachellia
- Species
- Vachellia gerrardi
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