pink flowers... love it usha di esp the unique shape of the pods == On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:06 AM, raman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XO4ji4J-z90/T2_x18SuyCI/AAAAAAAAAB4/-xpOYR6VBo0/s1600/Pink+Jacaranda+Tree+-+Fruit.jpg> > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JH2bF2H_Ijg/T2_yDHxPOOI/AAAAAAAAACQ/T--FNeqmL2I/s1600/Pink+Jacaranda+Tree+-+Leaf.jpg> > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jajmYfHCM74/T2_yHTX-oOI/AAAAAAAAACc/q-JT4vMcHEA/s1600/Pink+Jacaranda+Tree+-+Bark.jpg> > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-GzLMepdFgrw/T2_yNlxf1uI/AAAAAAAAACo/7CSK0WHRfck/s1600/Pink+Jacaranda+Tree+-+0000.jpg> > > > <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-DcdVah-Tiis/T2_x9ur6cII/AAAAAAAAACE/wLRxXjKizm4/s1600/Pink+Jacaranda+Tree+-+0017.jpg> > > > <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-BoQzxbJGcHM/T2_xwPtsffI/AAAAAAAAABs/kcBc-076ECs/s1600/Pink+Jacaranda+Tree+-+Canopy.jpg> > Stereospermum kunthianum is a deciduous shrub or tree, 3-15 m high, with a > stem diameter of 25 cm; bark thin, grey to grey-black, smooth or flakes off > in patches resembling the European plane tree; trunk rarely straight, > mostly forked; branches twisted; branching is erect and spreading to form a > light, rounded crown. Slash white or light brown. Leaves imparipinnately > compound, 25 cm long, alternate with 2-4 (max. 6) almost opposite pairs of > leaflets and 1 terminal leaflet; 5-9 leaflets with short, soft hairs, > oblong to oblong elliptic, stiff, 5-8(max. 10) x 3-7.5 cm, green and > hairless above and yellow-green with prominent veins under; apex broadly > tapering, often abruptly attenuate; base tapering; margin entire, > occasionally toothed in coppice growth; petiolules almost absent; petiole > up to 7 cm long, caniculate at the top; young leaves sometimes toothed and > hairy. Flowers precocious, fragrant, bisexual, showy, mauve to off-white, > more usually pinkish with red streaks on the lower corolla lobes and > produced in large, drooping panicles on long peduncles; corolla with a tube > up to 3 cm long and spreading lobes, 3-4 cm in diameter; calyx bell shaped, > irregularly 2- to 5-lobed, partially forming 2 lips; stamens 4, enclosed > within the corolla tube; ovary linear-oblong, 2-chambered. Fruits slender, > flat capsules or paired pods up to 45 x 1 cm, cylindrical, greenish-purple, > reddish-brown to dark brown, pendulous, spirally twisted, smooth, splitting > into 2 valves to release many flat, long, narrow, winged seeds. The > remnants of the capsule remain on the tree for months. > > Raman > > > -- Usha di ===========
