Dear Mani ji: congratulations, its like your baby, and its wonderful to see it "blossom"... its a veritable storehouse of medicinal properties.... esp the black pulp around the small seeds in the seedpod...in bengal the black stick like pod is called Bandor-lathi......lathi for a monkey... as you say liked by the monkeys, though Calcutta hardly has any free roaming monkey left... I call these types of trees Value added trees for street or Urban plantings....
My parents planted many such in our neighborhood in Calcutta, many of whom survive, yet many have been cut down by our city pragmatists to widen roads... etc... in recent times it has become somewhat popular in Calcutta streets.. loved to see your tree... usha di.. ------- On Apr 24, 7:16 pm, mani nair <mani.na...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear friends, > > Cassia fistula planted by me ten years ago in a school compound. It is the > flowering season lasting upto June. > This tree is a native of India. It sheds its leaves during March and in > April bursts into a mass of long, yellow golden flowers. The fruit is a > long pipe like liked by monkeys. The tree is the host plant for the > caterpillars of yellow butterflies. > > Regards, > > Mani. > > cassia3.jpg > 242KViewDownload > > cassia2.jpg > 150KViewDownload > > cassia.jpg > 151KViewDownload
