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Magnoliopsida
Caesalpinia pulcherrima (L.) Sw.
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Native to tropical and subtropical America.
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FG Creole: macata. Surinam: boontje krere krere, krekrere, krere-krere, sabinabloem. Surinam Djuka Bush Negro: ayoowiri. Surinam Sranan: djoepinda.
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
It is a beautiful ornamental shrub, reputed to have medicinal properties also. Roots are used for infantile convulsions, flowers for intestinal worms, coughs and chronic catarrh and leaves are reputed to have purgative action and abortifacient. (Bor and Raizada, Some Beaut. Ind. Cl. Shrubs, 56. 1954).
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"Maharashtra: Kolhapur Karnataka: Hassan, Mysore Kerala: All districts Tamil Nadu: All districts"
Poinciana pulcherrima L.
Chile Central
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Distribution: Native country uncertain, probably South America; introduced in Tropics, cultivated extensively in W. Pakistan.
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Widely cultivated in tropics, probably of South American origln.
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Shrub, nearly 2 m in height, branches sometimes slightly prickly. Leaves bipinnate, 10-45 cm long, pinnae 4-12 pairs, opposite, c. 7.5 cm long. Leaflets 1.2-1.3 cm long, 3-7 mm broad. Flowers in erect terminal raceme, variously orange yellow and red coloured, often claw red, centre of limb crimson, red or golden red. Filaments very long, bright red. Pod 5-7.5 cm long c. 1.7 cm broad, straight.
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