Delonix regia

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Dicotyledonae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Delonix
Species: D.regia
Scientific Name: Delonix regia(Hook.) Raf.

Common names
English : Flame buoyant, fire tree, flame tree, Royal Poinciana.
Hindi: Gulmohar. Marathi: Gulmohar.
Kannada: Gentige hoo, kempu Torai.

Discription

1. Habit and Habitat: Tall, deciduous trees with grey to pale-brown barkEndemic to Madagascar’s dry deciduous forest but has been introduced in to tropical and sub tropical regions worldwide.
2. Distribution: Native to northern and western Madagascar but has been introduce in to tropical and sub tropical regions worldwide.
3. Morphology:
   Leaf: Pinnae 8-20 pairs, leaflets 12-30 pairs, oblong, glabrous or nearly so.
   Inflorescence: Racemes.
   Flower: Flowers in terminal, simple or branched racemes. Large showy, bisexual; CALYX : Four spreading petals and a larger fifth petal which has steaks of yellow and white; COROLLA: Five smaller sepals that are green on the outside and red on inside.
   Androecium: 10 stamens with bright red stalk and yellowish brown anther.
   Gynoecium: Ovary superior green, slightly velutinous, style glabrous stigma indistinct.
   Fruit: Pods broadly linear, woody, dark-brown or reddish-brown, flat, beaked.
   Seeds: Seeds oblong, glabrous, smooth, white or creamy-white, mottled brown.
   Flowering and Fruiting time: March-August.
4. Propagation: Through seeds.
5. Importance:
   a.The tree is mainly preferred for cultivation mainly on account of profusion of bright flowers.
   b.The bark is used as a febrifuge.
   c.The tree yields a gum, which is used medicinally.
6. Location: