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Distinguishing characters
Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Description
Delonix regia
In frost-free climates it is an
evergreen tree or small shrub that grows to
3-10 in height and width. It is damaged at
32F and killed to the ground at 17F so it
typically grows as a deciduous shrub in
zone 9, and a returning perennial in zone 8.
In the topics it can reach heights of 15-20.
Bowl-shaped 5-petaled flowers (to 2" wide)
bloom spring to fall (year-round in tropical
climates) in 4-8" long terminal racemes (to
40 flowers per raceme) located at the
branch ends. Flowers feature bright orangeyellow petals with contrasting elongated
dark red stamens. Feathery, twice pinnate
Description
Delonix regia is a tree 10-15 (max.
18) m high, attaining a girth of up to 2 m;
trunk large, buttressed and angled towards
the base; bark smooth, greyish-brown,
sometimes slightly cracked and with many
dots (lenticels); inner bark light brown;
crown umbrella shaped, spreading with the
long, nearly horizontal branches forming a
diameter that is wider than the trees height;
twigs stout, greenish, finely hairy when
young, becoming brown. Roots shallow.
Leaves biparipinnate, alternate, light green,
Tamarindus indica
Description
The tamarind, a slow-growing, longlived, massive tree reaches, under favorable
conditions, a height of 80 or even 100 ft (2430 m), and may attain a spread of 40 ft (12
m) and a trunk circumference of 25 ft (7.5
Distribution
Medicinal
applications
are
innumerable. Fruit is used as a mild
laxative, for intestinal ailments,
biliary disorders, cardiac ailments,
scurvy, throat infection, as antipoisoning, against leprosy combined
with other products, pounded bark
against skin infection and dressing
of wounds, gall bladder disorders,
haemorrhoids etc.
Conservation
This widely distributed species is not
currently of conservation concern.
Chamaecrista mimosoides
Description
Annual or short-lived
perennial
herb,
subshrub or suffrutescent, with woodybase.
Stem
erect,
sometimes
diffuse,
pithy, woody at base, hairless or minutely
hairy orprostrate but more commonly
growing as an erect subshrub. Leaves
Compound and altenate, to 10cm long and
1.5cm wide, petioles always bear a gland
below the bottom pair of leaflets. Leaflets
small, asymmetric and blunt at apex.
Numerous, up to 70 pairs per leaf.
Sometimes
leaves 4-8 cm, with an
orbicular, discoid, sessile gland in upper
part of petiole, below lowest pair of
leaflets; stipules persistent, linear-subulate,
4-7 mm,
with conspicuous longitudinal
veins; rachis not canaliculate, sparsely
pubescent;
leaflets sessile,
20-50(-80)
pairs, reddish brown when dry, linearfalcate, 3-4 1 mm, midvein near upper
margin of blade, very unequally sided, base
obliquely truncate, apex acute, mucronate.
Inflorescence Solitary and axillary with 13 flowers in
an axil on
slender pedicels
about 1cm long. Flower Yellow and
few. Flowers supra-axillary, mostly solitary,
sometimes 2 or 3 together in a very short
raceme; bracts and bracteoles similar
to
stipules but latter smaller.
Sepals
lanceolate, 4-8 mm, apex acute. Petals
bright yellow, unequal, obovate to orbicular,
Bauhinia purpurea
Description
A small to medium-sized deciduous fastgrowing shrub or tree with a round,
symmetrical, moderate dense crown to 10
m tall, young branches becoming glabrous
or nearly so (glabrescent). Leaves simple,
alternate, base rounded to shallow-cordate,
up to 12 cm x 12 cm, deeply 2-lobed at
apex up to 1/3-1/2, ca. 7-12 cm long, and
equally wide, margin entire and the surfaces
smooth and glabrous, and 9- or 11- nerved
at base, the apex lobes rounded or obtuse
to subacute, minute stipules 1-2 mm long,
petioles puberulous to glabrous, 2.5-3.5 cm
long; leaf blades 4.5-11 cm long.
Inflorescence a 6-10-flowered raceme in
terminal panicles; flowers numerous,
hypanthium, turbinate, purple to nearly
white or at least purplemarked, the flower
buds clavate (club-shaped), velvety, ca 3-4
Distribution
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India,
Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,
Province of China, Thailand
Uses
http://www.kew.org/scienceconservation/plantsfungi/tamarindus-indica-tamarind
http://www.worldagroforestry.org/tree
db/AFTPDFS/Delonix_regia.PDF