senegalias

Noun

senegalia (plural senegalias)

1. Any leguminous plant of the genus Senegalia, closely related to acacias, found across the Southern Hemisphere.
   • As we should know by now, these ridges are likely to have very poor nutrient loads in their soils - the ridges are often of very old rocks, 550 Million years old or more and have been well and truly washed by rain for much of that time, with the nutrients that were once present now washed down...2012 January 5, Colin Beale, “Ecology of broad-leaved woodlands in the savannah”, in Safari Ecology, Blospot.com