Trees & Plants

Flamboyant tree

Ginimaa

Delonix regia (Hook.) Raf.

Grown as an avenue tree The wood is soft and employed for making agricultural implements. The seeds are used in tanning industry. Seed oil possesses insecticidal and anti-bacterial properties. The oil cake is a good fertiliser. The seed is a carminative and is also used in cases

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uses: The wood is soft and employed for making agricultural implements. The seeds are used in tanning industry. Seed oil possesses insecticidal and anti-bacterial properties. The oil cake is a good fertiliser. The seed is a carminative and is also used in cases of inflammation, ear ache and chest complaints. Th reat & damage: The tree has become naturalized in many countries. It is known on to be invasive in Australia, Christmas Island and in a number of Pacific islands. The tree can form monocultures and prevent regeneration of native species. 5, NARAHDISAS .N/OAF
family: Fabaceae
synonym: Poinciana regia Hook.
description: Trees, to 20 m high; branchlets a warty, puberulous. Leaves bi-pinnate, alternate; rachis 15-20 cm long; pinnae 8-20 Th pairs, opposite or subopposite, 2.7-10 cm, with sessile glands between each pinnae on to × upper side; leaflets 18-50, 0.4-0.8 0.2-0.35 mm, oblong or linear-oblong, base oblique, apex obtuse. Flowers crimson, in terminal or lateral corymbose panicles. Calyx lobes 5, thick, valvate, subequal. Petals 5, orbicular, imbricate; margins fimbriate; claws yellow, upper petal dissimilar and white streaked with red and yellow. Stamens 10, free. Fruit × a pod, 40 6 cm, flat, elongate, woody; seeds many, oblong.
native range: Madagascar
distribution: Th roughout the tropics NARAHDISAS .N/OAF
english names: Flamboyant tree · Flame are tree · Royal Poinciana · Gulmohar · Peacock flower Th
flowering fruiting: February – July
occurrence maldives: Grown as an avenue tree