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Saraca asoca (Roxb.) de Wilde

Synonym: Jonesia asoca Roxb., Saraca indica sensu Bedd.

CAESALPINIOIDEAE

Local Names : അശോകം, Asoka tree.

Flowering Period : February to August.

Distribution : India and Myanmar

Uses: Ornamental, Ayurvedic, Sacred Indian tree

Exotic : No.

.Trees , bark surface brown or brownish-black. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; leaflets opposite, narrowly oblong,  margin entire. Flowers bisexual, yellow-orange or red, in dense sessile paniculate corymbs. Calyx petalloid, cylindric; lobes 4, ovate-oblong, imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens 7 or 8, coloured; anthers versatile. Ovary half inferior, stipitate. Fruit a pod, flat, oblong.

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