In fact I was surprised that day when half the people called that plant as S. sesban and other half S. bispinosa. This tree was cultivated in our botanical garden and we regularly give to our students. It looks like ordinary tree, only it will die after few years. S. bispinosa habit is so different and leaves much more longer. You have to see them personally for not getting confused.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Many thanks Gurcharan ji for showing *Sesbania sesban*. > Clearly, I have been mistaking my plants at > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/indiantreepix/8mBbxgbh9aEto be > *S. sesban*. > Will revise my flickr notes as soon as time permits. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Sesbania sesban* (L.) Merrill in Philip. J.Sci.,Bot. 7:235. 1912. >> Syn: *Aeschynomene* *sesban* Linn.; *Sesbania* *aegyptica* Poir. Lam. >> >> Soft-wooded short-lived tree up to 6 m tall; leaves paripinnate, up to 15 >> cm long; leaflets 20-50, 10-25 mm long, up to 5 mm broad; flowers yellow, >> tinged or spotted with purple, in axillary up to 20-flowered raceme, 15 cm >> long; pod up to 30 cm long , 20-40 seeded. >> >> Photographed from Botanical Garden, Khalsa College, Delhi >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >
