Trees & Plants

Circassian tree

Madhoshi

Adenanthera pavonina L.

Fairly common in most of the inhabited Islands The wood is hard and is used for making furniture, boat, etc. The bark and leaves are astringent, vulnerary and aphrodisiac, and are useful in colonorrhea, haematuria and ulcers. The seeds are bitter, astringent, sweet, cooling, aphr

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uses: The wood is hard and is used for making furniture, boat, etc. The bark and leaves are astringent, vulnerary and aphrodisiac, and are useful in colonorrhea, haematuria and ulcers. The seeds are bitter, astringent, sweet, cooling, aphrodisiac, suppurative, antiemetic and febrifuge. The heartwood is astringent and haemostatic. in 3 Th reat & damage: An invasive tree which invades intact and undisturbed natural habitats and quickly establishes colonies. Management: Seedlings and saplings can be removed by hand pulling or digging. Herbicide application on the basal bark is to effective to kill mature trees.
family: Fabaceae
synonym: Adenanthera gersenii Scbrigheff ., Corallaria parvifolia Rumph.
description: Deciduous trees; to 25 m high; bark grey, smooth. Leaves bipinnate, alternate; rachis 15-60 cm long, stout, pulvinate, with a gland at the tip; pinnae 2-3 pairs, 20-40 cm, opposite or rarely subopposite, even pinnate; leaflets 8-20, × alternate, 1-6 2-4 cm, oblong, oblong- elliptic, base slightly oblique and truncate, apex round, emarginate or obtuse and mucronate; lateral nerves 9-10 pairs. Flowers pale yellow, ca. 6 mm across, clustered in axillary spiciform racemes; pedicel ca. 3 Th mm. Calyx tube campanulate, 5 toothed. Petals 5, connate below, linear-lanceolate, upto 5 mm long, glabrous. Stamens 10, free, filaments alternately long and short; be anthers oblong, ending in a stipitate gland. × Fruit a pod, 10-25 0.7-1.5 cm, straight to eff ., falcate to slightly twisted, spirally coiled × after dehiscence; seeds 6-15, 8-10 7-9 mm, elliptic-lenticular, glossy, red.
native range: Southeast China and India
distribution: Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Th ailand, Malaysia and China m
english names: Circassian tree · Coral wood · Red bead tree Th
flowering fruiting: January – September
occurrence maldives: Fairly common in most of the inhabited Islands