Never heard or seen this. interesting Name On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 6:50 PM, raman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tipu Tree is a medium-sized tree native to Southern Brazil and to Bolivia. > It has reddish-brown fissured bark. Leaves of Tipu Tree are briefly > decidious - so the tree is semi-evergreen. Leaves are alternate, opposite > and imparipinnate. They can be up to 1 foot long. Indidual leaflets are > about 6 cm long, slightly staggered oval, numbering 23 or a few less. The > leaflets are slightly paler below. The flowers are borne in axillary > racemes 10-15 cm long. The flowers are golden yellow, sometimes orangish, > shaped like sweet-pea flowers, very ornamental, 2 cm in diameter. The > standard petal is 1.5-1.8 cm long. Sepals are short, triangular. The > flowers produce 3-inch long by 1-inch-wide pods. Tipu Tree is mostly used > as an ornamental street tree. > > Raman > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
