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Common names: | Apple blossom cassia (English) Java cassia (English) Pink shower (English) |
Description: | Small to medium-sized tree, to 25 m. Leaves without glands on petiole and rhachis; petiole 1.5-4 cm long; leaflets with 5-15(-20) pairs of leaflets; elliptical-ovate to oblong, 2.5-5 cm long; base broadly rounded; apex usually rounded, sometimes acute. Stipules c. 12-25 mm long, leaflike. Inflorescence a raceme or panicle, terminal on leafy shoots or lateral on short side branches, up to 16 cm long, many-flowered. Bracts of inflorescence persisting while the flowers are open. Sepals 4-10 mm long, green to dark red. Petals 15-35 mm long, whitish to reddish or buff. Fruit pendent, terete, 20-60 cm long, 1-1.5(-2.5) cm in diameter, indehiscent. Seeds numerous, embedded in a flat disk. |
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Derivation of specific name: | javanica: of Java |
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Worldwide distribution: | Native to tropical Asia |
Growth form(s): | Tree. |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Image last updated: | Saturday 7 January 2017 |
Literature: |
Orwa, C. et al. (2009). Cassia javanica Agroforestry Database: a tree reference and selection guide, version 4.0. Published on the internet: http://www.worldagroforestry.org/treedb/AFTPDFS/Cassia_javanica.pdf |