Common names (English):

Indian laburnum, Fistula, Golden shower, Purging fistula

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Tree

Distribution:

Indo-Malesia

Use: Ornamental/Medicinal

Description:

Deciduous trees, to 20 m high. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; leaflets 3-8 pairs, opposite, ovate, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers 3-5 cm across, yellow, in axillary drooping racemes. Petals 5, obovate, subequal, clawed. Stamens 10, all fertile. Pod 30-60 cm long, cylindrical, black, shortly stipitate, indehiscent, woody, transversely septate; seeds 25-100.