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  • COMMON NAME: Golden shower tree
  • ARABIC: شجرة الدش الذهبية
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cassia fistula L.
  • SYNONYMS: Bactyrilobium fistula, Cassia bonplandiana, Cassia excelsa, Cassia fistuloides, Cassia rhombifolia, Cathartocarpus excelsus, Cathartocarpus fistula, Cathartocarpus fistuloides, Cathartocarpus rhombifolius
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Tree
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
https://www.floraofqatar.com/cassia_fistula.htm https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:484507-1#synonyms V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Honey nectar plants. ornamental plant and is also used in herbal medicine.
Tree. Leaves eglandular; leaflets 3–6(–8) pairs, acute or bluntly pointed, minutely puberulous beneath. Inflorescences Racemes lax, pendulous, 1–3 together, 15–60 cm long; bracts caducous. corolla Petals yellow, c. 2–3 cm long. fruits Pods cylindrical, 20–50 x 1.5–2.5 cm, black, indehiscent, with hard woody walls. Flowering from February-May.
Cultivated, Grows in gardens, parks, homes and roadsides.
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