Common names (English):

Purple Bauhinia, Butterfly tree, Camel's foot tree

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Tree

Distribution:

Native of Tropical Asia and Africa

Use: Ornamental

Description:

Medium sized trees. Leaves alternate, cleft about halfway down into 2 acute or rounded lobes. Inflorescence few flowered panicles at the ends of the branches. Flowers pink. Petals 4-5 cm long, oblanceolate. Stamens usually 3 fertile, others reduced to staminodes. Pod 15-25 cm long; seeds 12-15, orbicular.

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