Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Delonix elata (L.) Gamble
Family Name	Caesalpiniaceae
Common Name	White gull mohar
Tamil Name	வாதமாடக்கி
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	Tropical Africa, Asia and Australia
Botanical Distribution	Habit: Tree, up to 10 m tall. Leaves: Bipinnatly compound; leaflets opposite, 10 - 22pairs, oblong, retuse at base, entire at margin, obtuse, mucronate at apex, glabrous; 1-nerved; petiole sessile. Corymbose axillary and terminal. Flowers: white; pedicel. Calyx 5-lobed, lobe linearoblong, pubescent. Petals 5, suborbicular-oblong. Stamens 10; filament slender, anther thickened. Ovary flat, 1-loculed; ovules many; style slender, stigma subcapitate. Fruit: Pod terete, seeds may
Flowering and Fruiting	May-July.
Key Compounds	Tannins
Medicinal Use	Anti inflammatory and in treatment of ulcers
At the Campus	Botanical garden