Ambatch
Pith Tree
Aeschynomene elaphroxylon ?
In a marshy area at Eldoret, Kenya, Africa. December 2014.
FLOWERS: Yellow-orange pea flowers borne in small clusters.
LEAVES: Leaves are pinnately divided into 14 to 40, small paired leaflets. Leaves and petioles are pubescent.
SHRUB or small TREE: Often with many branches arising from low on the main trunk. Branches and trunks are pithy. The twigs are also set with pubescence.
FRUIT: Bean pods with constrictions between the seeds and are covered with bristly hairs.
ARMED: Pairs of thorns at each node.