| Spectacular Cassia |
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| File size | 878233 |
| Original date | 11/8/08 3:55 PM |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1920 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 41.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 3.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Senna spectabilis Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)
Synonyms: Cassia spectabilis, Cassia excelsa, Cassia carnaval
Synonyms: Cassia spectabilis, Cassia excelsa, Cassia carnaval
Spectacular Cassia is a medium to large tree from tropical America and
reaches 60 feet in height, but is often much smaller. The pinnately
compound leaves have 4-15 pairs of leaflets, which have fuzzy undersides
and are up to 3 inches long. Leaflets have pointed tips. The bright yellow
flowers are 1.5 inches wide but appear in dense racemes up to two feet
long. Sepals are orange-yellow, unequal, ovate to circular, 5-7 mm long.
Petals are yellow, spoon shaped, unequal, broadly to narrowly obovate,
2-3.5 cm long, anthers opening by apical pores and a slit. Stamens are 7
large and 3 small sterile. Pistil slender, curved, hairless. The
cylindrical seed-pods which follow are 12 inches long.s
Flowering: October-December.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Nehru Park, Delhi. |