Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT040 : Cassia fistula L.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 172

Synonym : Bactyrilobium fistula Willd.; Cassia bonplandiana DC.; Cassia excelsa Kunth; Cassia fistuloides Collad.; Cassia rhombifolia Roxb.; Cathartocarpus excelsus G.Don; Cathartocarpus fistula Pers.; Cathartocarpus fistuloides (Collad.) G.Don; Cathartocarpus rhombifolius G.Don;

Plant Common Name : Bahawa,Amaltas,K-Bana-Ka-Bhungdu, Amaltas, Golden shower tree, Indian Laburnum • Hindi: Amaltas • Manipuri: Chahui • Tamil: Konrai • Malayalam: Vishu konnai • Marathi: Bahava • Mizo: Ngaingaw • Bengali: Sonali, Bandarlati, Amultas • Urdu: Amaltas

Plant Family : Caesalpiniaceae / Fabaceae / Leguminosae

Description : This native of India, commonly known as Amaltaas, is one of the most beautiful of all tropical trees when it sheds its leaves and bursts into a mass of long, grape-bunches like yellow gold flowers. A tropical ornamental tree with a trunck consisting of hard reddish wood, growing up to 40 feet tall. The wood is hard and heavy; it is used for cabinet, inlay work, etc. It has showy racemes, up to 2" long, with bright, yellow, fragrant flowers. These flowers are attractive to bees and butterflies. The fruits are dark-brown cylindrical pods, also 2' long, which also hold the flattish, brown seeds (up to 100 in one pod) These seeds are in cells, each containing a single seed. A postal stamp was issued by the Indian Postal Department to commemorate this tree.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Digestive, Paste of leaves and bark is applied in nose infection. Roots boiled with milk are used in acidity. Paste of leaves is used to treat skin diseases. Roots are used to cure fever. The pods are used as a remedy for malaria, blood poisoning, anthrax, diabetes and dysentery. The pods contain a sweet, sticky pulp. A decoction of this is taken as a cure for kidney stones, as a vermifuge and as a laxative.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: linoleic; oleic; stearic; palmitic acids; Lupeol, Beta-sitosterol; hexacosanol; 5-nonatetracontanone; 2-hentriacontanone; triacontane; 16-hentriacontanol; Fistucacidin; Kaempferol; epiafzelechin; Epicatechin; catechin; procyanidin B-2; epiafzelechin; rhein; fistulin; Fistucacidin; sennoside A; sennoside B; chrysophanol; physcion;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (6):

Lupeol;

Beta-sitosterol;

Kaempferol;

Catechin;

Epicatechin;

Palmitic acid;

Plant's Current Status : Common

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1380355132_Bahorun%20et%20al.pdf - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Amaltas.html - https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/11434 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31155 - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Cassia+fistula

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Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Rosidae
Order : Fabales
Family : Caesalpiniaceae - Gulmohar family
Genus : Cassia L. - cassia
Species : Cassia fistula L. - golden shower

Cassia fistula L. - golden shower
Cassia fistula L. - golden shower
Cassia fistula L. - golden shower
Cassia fistula L. - golden shower