Gulmohar - Flame Buoyant Tree
Delonix regia
Summary
Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Dicotyledonae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Delonix
Species: D.regia
Scientific Name: Delonix regia(Hook.) Raf.
Common names
English : Flame buoyant, fire tree, flame tree, Royal Poinciana.
Hindi: Gulmohar.
Kannada: Gentige hoo, kempu Torai.
Marathi: Gulmohar.
Discription
- Habit and Habitat: Tall, deciduous trees with grey to pale-brown barkEndemic to Madagascar’s dry deciduous forest but has been introduced in to tropical and sub tropical regions worldwide.
- Distribution: Native to northern and western Madagascar but has been introduce in to tropical and sub tropical regions worldwide.
- Morphology:
Leaf: Pinnae 8-20 pairs, leaflets 12-30 pairs, oblong, glabrous or nearly so.
Inflorescence: Racemes.
Flower: Flowers in terminal, simple or branched racemes. Large showy, bisexual; CALYX : Four spreading petals and a larger fifth petal which has steaks of yellow and white; COROLLA: Five smaller sepals that are green on the outside and red on inside.
Androecium: 10 stamens with bright red stalk and yellowish brown anther.
Gynoecium: Ovary superior green, slightly velutinous, style glabrous stigma indistinct.
Fruit: Pods broadly linear, woody, dark-brown or reddish-brown, flat, beaked.
Seeds: Seeds oblong, glabrous, smooth, white or creamy-white, mottled brown.
Flowering and Fruiting time: March-August. - Propagation: Through seeds.
- Importance:
a.The tree is mainly preferred for cultivation mainly on account of profusion of bright flowers.
b.The bark is used as a febrifuge.
c.The tree yields a gum, which is used medicinally. - Location: Throughout college campus.
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