Common names (English):

Dwarf poinciana, Peacock flower, Gold Mohur

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Shrub

Distribution:

Native to Tropical America.

Use: Ornamental

Description:

Large shrubs, to 5 m tall. Leaves bipinnate; pinnae 4-8 pairs; leaflets 6-8 pairs on each pinna, elliptic to obovate. Flowers in terminal corymbose racemes. Petals subequal, commonly flame-red but sometimes pink and yellow. Stamens 10. Pod 6-12 cm long, obliquely oblong, compressed, beaked at apex; seeds 8-10.