Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Tabebuia rosea DC
Family Name	Bignoniaceae
Common Name	Salvador Pink Trumpet Tree
Tamil Name	வசந்த ராணி
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	Indroda Park
Botanical Distribution	Habit:A tall fast-growing tree with crown wide, stratified and irregular with a few thick, horizontal branches, the bole is straight, sometimes channeled at base. Branching is sympodial. Leaves: Decussate, long petiolate, compound, digitate, 5 unequal leaflets, the central leaflet is the larger. Petioles pulvinate. Flower: pink or white flowers, growing along the streets or in parks Calyx:The calyx is persistent. Corolla:five-petalled, trumpet-shaped and grow to about 5 to 8 cm. Fruit: Long, slender, linear-cylindrical, brown, bivalve, loculicidal capsule, attenuate at both ends Seeds: Seeds are whitish, thin, with broad, yalinemembranous wings.
Flowering and Fruiting	January – April
Key Compounds	aromatic aldehydes, sugar, aromatic compounds, terpenoids , quinone , alkanes , phenolics
Medicinal Use	A decoction of the flowers, leaves and roots has been used to reduce fevers and pain, cause sweating, to treat tonsil inflammation and various other disorders.
At the Campus	Front UG chemistry Lab