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Bi means two and pinnate means feathered
Rain tree / Bilayti Siris
Rain tree / Bilayti Siris
A very large deciduous tree with enormous umbrella-shaped crown. Trunk is usually short and fat. Pinkish puff-like flowers and twice feathered leaves that close themselves at night and cloudy weather. Though from tropical America, it had become very common in India, especially as an avenue tree
Copperpod / Kanak Chura
Copperpod / Kanak Chura
A familiar tree with twice-feathered leaf that blooms in summer months in crinkled yellow flowers followed by small copper colored flat pods. Like Rain Tree, this tree is widely used as avenue tree
Gulmohur
Gulmohur
A familiar light crowed umbrella shaped exotic ornamental tree with twice feathered leaves that in April becomes a magnificent sight with profuse scarlet flowers. Trunk becomes buttressed with age.
Adenanthera pavonina
Red Sandalwood
Red Sandalwood
A medium to large tree with gulmohur–like leaves (bipinnate) with 4-6 pair of oppositely arranged pinnae but the leaflets are alternatively arranged (diagnostic).
Albizzia lebbeck
Siris
Siris
Medium to large deciduous tree with a short bole and thin spreading crown with twice feathered leaves. In Feb and early Mar, the tree is full of straw-colored pods in bare branches
Parkia biglandulosa
Badminton Ball Tree
Badminton Ball Tree
A large spreading tree from Malaysia with a huge bole and leaves very similar to familiar gulmohur tree
Millingtonia hortensis
Indian cork tree, Tree jasmine
Indian cork tree, Tree jasmine
A tall tree with corky bark, nearly vertical limbs, and drooping twigs. The long, tubular, white, scented flowers appear in November and December.
Albizia procera
White Siris
White Siris
A tall light-crowned tree, usually without branched up to quite a height, with pale yellow bark. Not common in Kolkata
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