Cassia Fistula is one of the most beautiful of all tropical trees, when it sheds its leaves and burst into a mass of long, grape-bunches like yellow gold flowers.
A tropical ornamental tree with a trunk consisting of hard reddish wood, growing upto 40 feet tall.
Its bright yellow fragrant flowers in long pendulous clusters , 30 - 50 cm in length are attractive to insects/ bees and butterflies.
The fruits are dark, brown cylindrical ponds, also 2 feet long. The fruits also hold th flattish, brown seeds (Upto 100 in one pod ).
The sweet blackish pulp of the seedpo is used as mild taxative. But it can be used with medical advice.
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