Scientific Name : Erythrina suberosa Roxb.
Category : Angiosperms
Status : Alive
Habit : A small tree with very corky bark on old stems, braches armed with stout prickles, which fall off in a few years, and leave a whitish, more or less smooth bark. Leaves : Trifoliate, usually unarmed, occasionally with a few scattered prickles, petioles 10-20 cm long, stipules caducous. Leaflets pale green or whitish, the terminal rhomboid-ovate, regular, the lateral very unequal-sided, all more or less glabrous above, downy beneath. Inflorescence and Flowers : Flowers in small racemes towards the end of the branches, forming a dense head, pedicels fascicled. Calyx more or less pubescent, at length bilipped, corolla scarlet in colour, papilionaceous, the wings minute, falcate. Fruits : Pods torulose, seeds 2-5. Flowering and Fruiting Time : April-May Significance : The soft wood is used in the production of light boxes. The bark is also known to be used medicinally.
Specimen Information
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Common Name(s):
पांगारा, Indian coral tree
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Synonym(s):
Corallodendron suberosum (Roxb.) Kuntze Erythrina alba Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. Erythrina bisetosa Griff. Erythrina glabrescens (Prain) R.Parker Erythrina hamiltoniana Steud. Erythrina maxima Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. Erythrina nahasuta Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Erythrina reniformis Buch.-Ham. Erythrina stricta var. suberosa (Roxb.) Niyomdham Erythrina sublobata Roxb. Micropteryx suberosa (Roxb.) Walp. Micropteryx sublobata (Roxb.) Walp.
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Family:
Fabaceae
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18-08-2022
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