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