Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Albizia lebbeck (L.) Willd.
Family Name	Mimosaceae
Common Name	Siris tree, Woman's tongue, Siridam
Tamil Name	வாகை
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	Tropical Africa, Asia and Northern Australia.
Botanical Distribution	Habit: A large tree with a general bluish appearance, unarmed, deciduous, bark pale, stem - erect, cylindrical, branched, solid. Leaves: Bipinnate, main rachis with a large gland on the petiole near the base and one below the highest pair of pinnae, pinnae 2 - 4 pairs; leaflets 5 - 9 pairs. Flowers: Heads, White, fragrant, heads umbellate, from the upper leaf axils, solitary or fasciculate. Filaments exserted, connate below into a short tube. Fruits: Pods long, broad, thin, flat, straight, straw - coloured when old, glabrous and shining. Seeds: 4 - 12, spherical or slightly reniform, smooth, glabrous, yellowish brown.
Flowering and Fruiting	July – October, October – March
Key Compounds	Amino acids, aspartic acid, theronine, serine, glutamic acid, proline, glycine, alanine, cystein, valine, methionine, isoleucine, leucine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, hisitidine, lysine and arginine
Medicinal Use	Astringent, externally applied in boils, eruptions, etc. opthalmia
At the Campus	College main entrance and near the auditorium