A common tree in Chennai and Tamil Nadu. The leaves are shed when it is hot summer in May! That is why it is not liked by people for planting in avenues. But most useful tree (timber for making catamarans / like floats).
On Sunday, April 29, 2012 8:41:51 AM UTC+5:30, raman wrote: > > Indian Ash Tree is a deciduous tree, growing up to 14 m tall. Branchlets > are minutely covered with starry hairs. Alternately arranged leaves are > pinnate, with a single terminal leaflet (pinnae) at the end. The spine > carrying the leaflets is up to 7 cm long. Leaflets are usually 5, each > laterals opposite, ovate, base rounded, densely velvet-hairy when young. > Flowers are unisexual, greenish, the male in compound and female in simple > racemes. Sepals 4, about 1 mm long, broad ovate. Petals 4, 2 mm long, > oblong, green yellow. Fruit is ovoid, compressed, in panicles, at the end > of leafless branches. Flowering: January-March. > > My wait of two months are over. Its in full bloom, after looking at the > buds for 2 months. > > Raman >
