Radermachera xylocarpa (Roxb) K.Schum.

Type
Indigenous
Family
Bignoniaceae
Synonym
Bignonia xylocarpa Roxb.
Local Name
Vedikora
Local Name 2
Pannimuringa
Habit
Large sized tree
Botanical Features

Deciduous trees; bark light greyish-brown, rough, corky, flaking off in thin irregular scales; blaze brown and cream. Leaves compound, bipinnate or tripinnate, opposite, estipulate; rachis 24-50 cm long, stout, swollen at base and each nodes; pinnae 7-9, leaflets 3-9 in each pinnae, opposite; petiolule 1.5-5 mm; lamina 3.5-15 x 2-7 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate; base oblique or acute; apex acute or acuminate; margin entire, membranous, glabrous; lateral nerves 4-7 pairs, glabrous, flowers bisexual, white, tinged with yellow, fragrant, in terminal panicled cymes, fruit a capsule, elongate, 30-75 x 1.5-3.7 cm, warty tubercled, woody, bivalved, dissepiments spongy, slightly curved; seeds winged, 1.5 cm long, with membranous wings at both ends.

Habit
Leaf
Flower
Fruit