Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Poir.
Family Name	Fabaceae
Common Name	Agati
Tamil Name	அகத்தி
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	-
Botanical Distribution	Habit: Tree, up to 10 m tall; branchlet stomentose. Leaves: Leaves pinnatly compound, paripinnate; leaflets opposite, 20 - 50-pairs, oblong-elliptic, rounded at base, entire at margin, obtuse-emarginate at apex, pubescent; 7-pairs; petiole. Stipule filiform. Racemes axillary. Flowers: Flowers white, pale yellow; bracts lanceolate. Calyx narrowly campanulate. Petals 5, exserted; standard broadly lanceolate, wings and keels lanceolate. Staminal sheath. Stamens 10; filament longlyfilifom; anther oblong-obvoid. Ovary: Ovary subsessile, cylindric, 1-loculed; ovules many; style subterete, stigma capitate. Fruits: Pod linear-slightly falcate, seeds many, subglobose, subreniform.
Flowering and Fruiting	More or less throughout the year.
Key Compounds	Thiamine, riboflavin, ascorbic acid, b-carotene, niacin
Medicinal Use	Diarrhea fever, diarrhea swellings rheumatism, headache.
At the Campus	Front of the B.Ed. College