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Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth.

Synonym: Mimosa lebbeck L, Mimosa sirissa Roxb.

MIMOSOIDEAE

Local Names: കരിവാഗ, East-India Walnut, Siris tree.

Flowering Period : March to December.

Distribution : Indo-Malesia and South China

Uses:  Bark sap used as Fish Poison, Antidiarrheal, Timber Yielding, Anti-Inflammatory

Exotic : No.

 Deciduous trees with rough, deeply fissured bark. Leaves are bipinnate, alternate, opposite, margin entire. Flowers bisexual, greenish-white, subglobose heads, in axillary corymbose racemes. Calyx tube funnel-shaped. Petals united infundibuliform, greenish. Stamens many, filaments, green or pink; anthers very small. Ovary subsessile, glabrous. Fruit a pod, flat, oblong, compressed, straw coloured, turgid above the seeded region.

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