Fabaceae
Black cutch
Senegalia catechu
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Senegalia
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Common names
By language (39)
- Arabic
- الأكاسيا ذات الكاشو, سنط كادي
- arz
- سنط كادى
- Bangla
- খয়ের
- Breton
- Gwez-kachou
- Burmese
- ရှားပင်, ရှား
- Cantonese
- 兒茶樹, 白刺樹
- Catalan
- Arbre del catxú
- Chinese
- 西谢, 儿茶, 孩儿茶, 乌爹泥, 兒茶, 多刺兒茶, 儿茶膏, 多刺相思树
- dag
- Gomancheen
- English
- Black cutch, Catechu tree, White catechu, White cutch tree, White thorn
- Esperanto
- Kateĉuakacio
- Estonian
- Katehhu-akaatsia, Beetliakaatsia
- ff
- Yewa settoje
- Finnish
- Rohtoakaasia
- German
- Gerber-Akazie, Katechu, Katechu-Akazie
- Hindi
- खैर
- Japanese
- ペグノキ
- Kannada
- ಅಕೇಶಿಯ ಕ್ಯಾಟೆಚು
- Kinyarwanda
- Umugo, Umugu
- Maithili
- खयर
- Malayalam
- കന്നലി, കരിങ്ങാലി, വെൺകരിങ്ങാലി, ഖദിര
- Marathi
- खैर
- Nepali
- Khayar, खयर
- Nyanja
- Mnyungo
- Persian
- سنگالیا پلیاکانتا, سنگالیا چوندرا, سنگالیا کتچو
- Polish
- Akacja katechu
- Punjabi
- ਕੱਥਾ
- rn
- Umukoto
- Russian
- Акация катеху
- Sanskrit
- खदिरवृक्षः, अश्वत्थः
- sat
- ᱠᱷᱚᱭᱚᱨ ᱫᱟᱨᱮ
- shn
- တူၼ်ႈမႆႉသႃးၸေး, တူၼ်ႈမႆႉသၵ်းၸေး, မႆႉသႃးၸေး
- Slovenian
- Črna akacija
- Tamil
- சிலையுஞ்சில், மாரோடம், செங்கருங்காலி
- tcy
- ಖದಿರ
- Telugu
- కాచు, నల్లచండ్ర
- Thai
- สีเสียดแก่น, สีเสียด, สีเสียดเหนือ, สีเสียดไทย
- Vietnamese
- Keo cao
- Wolof
- Narab
Synonyms
- Acacia catechu (L.f.) Willd.
- Acacia catechu Wight & Arn.
- Acacia catechu Brandis
- Acacia catechu subsp. suma (Roxb.) Roberty
- Acacia catechu subsp. sundra (Roxb.) Roberty
- Acacia catechu var. catechuoides (Roxb.) Prain
- Acacia catechu var. sundra (Roxb.) Kurz
- Acacia catechu var. wallichiana (DC.) P.C.Huang
- Acacia catechuoides (Roxb.) Benth.
- Acacia chundra (Roxb. ex Rottler) Willd.
- Acacia polyacantha Willd.
- Acacia sandra Bedd.
- Acacia suma (Roxb.) Kurz ex Brandis
- Acacia suma Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
- Acacia sundra (Roxb.) DC.
- Acacia sundra (Roxb.) Bedd.
- Acacia wallichiana DC.
- Mimosa albida Roxb. ex Wall.
- Mimosa cate Spreng.
- Mimosa catechu L.f.
- Mimosa catechuoides Roxb.
- Mimosa chundra Roxb. ex Rottler
- Mimosa frondosa B.Heyne ex Wall.
- Mimosa spinosissima Poir.
- Mimosa suma Roxb.
- Mimosa sundra Roxb.
- Mimosa tamariscina B.Heyne ex Wall.
- Senegalia chundra (Roxb. ex Rottler) Maslin
- Senegalia polyacantha (Willd.) Seigler & Ebinger
- Senegalia polyacantha subsp. polyacantha
- Senegalia suma (Roxb.) Britton & Rose
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Aadi Kulkarni, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Aadi Kulkarni, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Dcarlson, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Dcarlson, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Maša Sinreih in Valentina Vivod, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.