Sita Ashok Tree/ Saraca asoca / Flowering Ashoka

Sita Ashok Tree/ Saraca asoca/ Flowering Asoka

 
                                       Sita Ashok Tree, Sorrowless tree, Ashok

                                   Saraca Asoca, Sita Ashok Flower ,सीता-अशोक


Sita Ashok Tree, Sorrowless tree, Ashok


Sita Ashoke Tree


                                                       New leaves of Sita Ashok (Pea family)

New leaves of Sita Ashok tree : If you see Sita Ashok in new leaf, you will notice that  the youngest leaves hang down in limp tassels and are a peculiar color, pinkish at first, slowly turning a translucent tan and than pale purple. This is because the young leaves emerge without any chlorophyll (with a green pigment), and is only as they begin to stiffen that you can see the chlorophyll leaching into the leaves.

This behaviors of young leaves is strange but by no means unique. A number of other evergreen trees from relatively dry habitats share this characteristics- notably the mango, Nagkesar. But it does make it easy to recognize one of these trees from a great distance.

Saraca asoca 
Common name: Flowering ashoka
Family: Fabaceae
Description: Trees, upto 3.5 m high. Leaves alternate, pinnate, upto 20 cm long, rachis glabrous. Inflorescence a corymb, axillary. Fruit a pod, linear-oblong, black, narrow at both filaments slender.
Native: India, Sri Lanka
Location : It is cultivated for ornamental tree.

Sita Ashok Tree : Rated by some as India's most beautiful tree for its exquisite pale-apricot flowers which turn bright red. It is a small tree nearly  evergreen , with a dense spreading crown. Season : Leaves : Never completely shed but thin in March.. New leave appear  towards late March. 
Flower : in the last week of March, peaking early in April. Flowers do not have true petals . The color is provided by red leafy bract and orange flower cups. The long stamens too are brightly colored.


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