| Malaysian Ashok |
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| Original date | 3/25/22 9:30 PM |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 14.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Saraca indica Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)
Synonyms: Saraca bijuga, Saraca pierreana, Saraca arborescens
Synonyms: Saraca bijuga, Saraca pierreana, Saraca arborescens
Malaysian Ashok is a small tree with compact crown, up
to 10 m tall. Leaves are pinnately compound, with 6-12 leaflets. Young
leaflets are reddish and hang limply like handkerchiefs. Tree exhibits
cauliflory - flowers produced in big dense clusters directly on trunk
or branches. Unlike most other legumes, flowers have no petals. Sepals
open yellow, aging to orange and red, fragrant especially upon dusk.
Fairly free-blooming, but more prolific from Feb to May when whole tree
may be covered with blooms. Fruits are large flat, leathery explosive
pods 20 cm, purplish when mature, shaped like scimitars. Malaysian
Ashok is native to Indo-China to W. Malesia.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bengaluru. |
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