Radhachura Tree
Radhachura Tree
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Description
It is a deciduous tree growing to 15–25 m (rarely up to 50 m) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m. The leaves are bipinnate, 30-60 cm long; the flowers are yellow, 2.5-4 cm diameter, produced in large compound racemes up to 20 cm long. The fruit is a pod 5-10 cm long and 2.5 cm broad, red at first, ripening black, and containing one to four seeds. Trees begin to flower after about four years. The tree is widely grown in tropical regions as an ornamental tree, particularly in India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Florida and Hawaii in the United States.
Radhachura are usually planted as specimen trees or as shade trees. They are used as street trees in tropical cities, and commonly planted for shade in tropical and subtropical gardens. It also contains medicinal uses too as its bark is used for dysentery, tooth powder, eye lotion, embrocation for pains and sores; the bark gives a dye of yellow colour too.
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Order: Fabales
- Family: Fabaceae
- Genus: Peltophorum
- Species: P. Pterocarpum
- Scientific Name: Peltophorum Pterocarpum
