>From the pictures & details at this link: http://www.missouriplants.com/Yellowalt/Cassia_occidentalis_page.html, http://tropilab.com/yorkapesi.html & http://www.ics.trieste.it/MAPs/MedicinalPlants_Plant.aspx?id=591, it appears like *Cassia occidentalis as told* by Akram ji. Here are links for its medicinal use: http://www.motherherbs.com/cassia-occidentalis.html & http://www.rain-tree.com/fedegoso-powder.htm
*But it appears quite close to Cassia sophera. Can anybody confirn the final Id & tell about the differences between the two? * On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is Cassia sophera L. In Bengali known as Kasundi, sometimes > Kalkasundi, as by the great Writer Bibhuti Bhusan Bandopadhaya, the > nature lover and the author of Apu- trilogy and other well known > Novels, it grows wild particularly in his native place. Poor people in > this area eat both young leaves and the yellow flowers after cooking. > I had also tasted- great. > > On Sep 19, 1:14 pm, Mahendra Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I believe it is a sps of Cassia. I have a similar flowering plant, but my > plant leaves seem slightly darker. It flowers almost all the year round. The > seeds are in long round pods, about 7 mm dia and 100 mm long, green turning > brown and dry when ripe. In the photo one can see 2 seed pods lower down the > flower, one fairly long and the upper one just developing. Flowers about 1 > - 1.25" size. > > > > --- On Wed, 17/9/08, Bhanumathi R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: Bhanumathi R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [indiantreepix:4821] Needs id > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Wednesday, 17 September, 2008, 2:48 PM > > > > Hi members, > > > > Please identify the attached pic of a plant taken > > in IIT campus Chennai. Thanks > > > > Bhanu > > > > Get an email ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Click herehttp://in.promos.yahoo.com/address > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg "We often ignore the beauty around us" For learning about our trees & plants, please visit/ join Google e-group (Indiantreepix) http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en For my Birds, Butterflies, Trees, Landscape pictures etc., visit http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/J.M.Garg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
