Love to see your effort... On 4/25/11, Ushadi micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Mani ji: congratulations, its like your baby, and its wonderful > to see it "blossom"... > its a veritable storehouse of medicinal properties.... esp the black > pulp around the small seeds in the seedpod...in bengal the black stick > like pod is called Bandor-lathi......lathi for a monkey... as you say > liked by the monkeys, though Calcutta hardly has any free roaming > monkey left... > I call these types of trees Value added trees for street or Urban > plantings.... > > My parents planted many such in our neighborhood in Calcutta, many of > whom survive, yet many have been cut down by our city pragmatists to > widen roads... etc... in recent times it has become somewhat > popular in Calcutta streets.. > > loved to see your tree... > usha di.. > > ------- > > On Apr 24, 7:16 pm, mani nair <mani.na...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear friends, >> >> Cassia fistula planted by me ten years ago in a school compound. It is >> the >> flowering season lasting upto June. >> This tree is a native of India. It sheds its leaves during March and in >> April bursts into a mass of long, yellow golden flowers. The fruit is a >> long pipe like liked by monkeys. The tree is the host plant for the >> caterpillars of yellow butterflies. >> >> Regards, >> >> Mani. >> >> cassia3.jpg >> 242KViewDownload >> >> cassia2.jpg >> 150KViewDownload >> >> cassia.jpg >> 151KViewDownload
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