Nice photographs Madhuri ji, you have mixed two taxa Caesalpinia pulcherrima f. pulcherrima Caesalpinia pulcherrima f. flava
Would be better if you upload them in two separate mails as Dinesh ji has done -- 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, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote: > Oct and Nov 2011 Pune > > Sharing pictures of Caesalpinia pulcherrima > > Family: Fabaceae > > Genus: Caesalpinia > > Common names: Peacock Flower, Pride of Barbados, Dwarf poinciana • Hindi: > *गुलेतूरा *guletura • Manipuri: *ক্রিশ্নচূরা *Krishnachura • Marathi: > Sankasur • Telugu: *రత్నగంధీ *Ratnagandhi • Kannada: Kenjige • Oriya: > Krishnochuda • Tamil: Mayurkonrai • Malayalam: Settimandaram • Bengali: > *ক্রিশ্নচূড়া > *Krishnachura, *রাধাচূড়া *Radhachura • Sanskrit: Sidhakya > > > Shrub growing to 3 m tall. > > Bipinnate leaves are, 20-40 cm long, bearing 3-10 pairs of pinnae, each > with 6-10 pairs of leaflets 15-25 mm long and 10-15 mm broad. > > The flowers are borne in racemes up to 20 cm long, each flower with five > yellow, orange or red petals. > The fruit is a pod 6-12 cm long > -- > Regards > Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade >
