Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Poir.

Type
Exotic
Family
Leguminosae
Common Name
Agatil
Origin
Tropical Asia
Botanical Features

Small soft-wooded trees; up to 7 m tall; branchlets pubescent.  Leaves 18-30 cm long; leaflets 12-25 pairs, 1.5-3.5 x 0.6-1.2 cm, oblong, base rounded, apex obtuse, emarginate, glabrous to appressed-pubescent on both surfaces, glaucous beneath; stipules 5-8 mm long, ovate.  flowers 7.5-10 cm long, pendulous; corolla pink or white, pods 30-45 cm long, 5-8 mm wide, slender, falcate or straight.  Seeds c. 30, reddish-brown.