Widely planted as an avenue tree The wood is durable and suitable for furniture. Bark is used to treat dysentery and externally as a lotion to relieve eye diseases, body pains and sores.
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uses
The wood is durable and suitable for furniture. Bark is used to treat dysentery and externally as a lotion to relieve eye diseases, body pains and sores.
family
Fabaceae
synonym
Peltophorum roxburghii (G.Don) Degener, Inga pterocarpa DC.
description
Trees, to 20 m high, young parts brown tomentulose. Leaves bipinnate, alternate; rachis 21-40 cm long, pulvinate, brown tomentulose; pinnae 10-12 pairs, opposite, 4-15 cm long; leaflets 14-38, × 1-2 0.3-0.8 cm, sessile, oblong, base obliquely truncate, apex obtuse or retuse, glabrous above, puberulent beneath; lateral nerves 4-8 pairs. Flowers golden yellow, in terminal or lateral racemose panicles; pedicels 7-10 mm long. Calyx lobes 5, ovate, 7-10 mm long, minutely tomentose. Petals 5, subequal, crinkled. Stamens 10, filaments free, pilose at base; anthers uniform. Fruit × a pod, 5-11.5 1.7-2.8 cm, samaroid, oblong-elliptic, minutely tomentulose, longitudinally striated; seeds 1-4, lenticular, light brown, compressed. (DC.) K. Heyne
native range
Northern Australia and Indo-Malaysia
distribution
Widespread in the tropics
english names
Copper pod tree · Yellow flame tree · Golden flamboyant an