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Cassia grandis
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Caesalpinioideae)
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Citation: Cassia grandis L. f., Suppl. Pl. 230. 1781; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 23. 1992; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Subtribe Cassiinae 32. 2001.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Pink Shower, Coral Shower, Horse Cassia
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Description:
Trees, to 15 m high, bark brown; branchlets velvety pubescent. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; stipules lateral, falcate or subulate, cauducous; rachis 14-25 cm long, stout, pulvinate, pubescent; leaflets 16-40, subopposite, estipellate; petiolule to 2 mm; lamina 1.5- 4.5 x 1-2 cm, elliptic-oblong or ovate, base round, apex obtuse, retuse or apiculate, margin entire, glabrous above, woolly beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves prominent, pinnate. Flowers bisexual, pink, in lateral simple racemes to 20 cm long; pedicels 1-2 cm long; calyx lobes 5, 6- 9 mm long, obovate, obtuse, tomentulose; petals 5, 1.5 -2 cm, pink to rose, orbicular to obovate; stamens 10, unequal; 3 lower filaments ca. 2 cm long, sigmoid, the others shorter; anthers pilosulous, the 3 larger ones opening by apical and basal pores, 5 on shorter filaments opening by apical and basal pores, 2 smaller abortive; ovary half inferior, stipitate, 2 cm, pubescent; ovules many; style to 6 mm. Fruit a pod, 20 -80 x 2-5.5 cm, oblong, terete, black, indehiscent; seeds many, transverse, brown, lustrous, imbedded in pulp.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-April
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as ornamental tree
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Distribution:
Native of tropical America
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Pink
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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