Indian Laburnum Or Golden Shower Tree

Indian Laburnum Or Golden Shower Tree

Family : fabaceae

Charcateristic feature:

Habit : A medium - large sized deciduous tree found all over the state ascending up to 2000 ft.

Leaves : compound, leaflets come in 5 pairs, opposite, oblong-broadly obovate, glabrous above, pubescent below, base subacutre, margin entire, apex gradually tapering.

Flowers : terminal racemes, pedicel elongated. Petals 5, yellow, stamens 10, carpel one.

Fruit : Pod oblong, 1 - 2 ft long, cylindrical, smooth.

Seeds : many,immersed in a dark brown pulp. During leaf less period flower occur covering all branches