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JUNGLE JALEBI. Pithecellobium dulce
JUNGLE JALEBI. Pithecellobium dulce. विलायती इमली,
JUNGLE JALEBI. Pithecellobium dulce : A spiny tree with a broad, spreading crown commonly clipped down to form a dense beautiful hedge. Large tree deciduous. Its jalebi like coiled fruit pod and grey bark with horizontal wheels are diagnostic. Seasons : Leaves : begin to fall by late February when trees look conspicuously twiggy. New leaves coppery around the late February to early March. Leaves twice feathered with only one pair of side stalks, each with one pair of curving blunt leaflets.
Flower ; from mid-March to mid April. Flowers are round woolly, with long dirty white stamens. Flowers appear in dense woolly clusters of 7.25 forming a round 'head' at the end of common flower stalk about 10 cm long. The tiny petals are green, but the most obvious feature of the flower is its long untidy, soiled white stamen about 40-50 per flower. The flowers have a faint aroma.
Fruit : ripen in June. Fruit a slightly flattened pod becoming tightly coiled as it matures green tinged with red. Fruit pod about 1 cm wide, slightly flattened, straight at first becoming tightly coiled as they elongate. The pods are noticeably pinched between the seeds. Starting green, they are gradually tinged red or pink until they dry to reddish brown. After splitting open the shiny black seeds hang from red threads ( a stalk of ovules) before falling/
Spines : short paired spreading, arising from leaf bases.
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SICKLE BUSH Dichrostachys cinerea. Chinese Lantern. Bell mimosa
SICKLE BUSH Dichrostachys cinerea. Chinese Lantern. Bell mimosa
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SICKLE BUSH Dichrostachys cinerea. Chinese Lantern. Bell mimosa : Two colored inflorescences of sickle brush. A small multi stemmed tree up to 3 meters often just a bush., with feathery Acacia like foliage. Its striking pink and yellow flower spikes, appearing early in the rains, serve to identify it immediately. A native deciduous tree found only in dry rocky parts of the ridge. Seasons : Leaves : Very thin lost by January. A weak flush of new leaves in March, quickly subsiding fresh leaves in early June. Leaf twice feathered 6-7 cm long with up to 15 pairs of side stalks and numerous pair of tiny crowded stalkless leaflets.
Flowers : June to September triggered by early rain. Flowers tiny , tightly packed together in spikes6-9 cm long those at the base are fluffy pink, terminal end of spike has bright yellow flower. Flowers 2 kinds pink flower with long filaments, closet to the stalk are all sterile. They role is probably to attract insect pollinators. The yellow flower towards the apex is fertile with shorter stamens. The yellow flowers with shorter stamens are bisexual fertile.
Fruit : Or Seed Pod : Fruit pod remains for very long eventually falling between January and March., Fruit pods russet brown coiled and often intertwined. They do not split open on the tree. Fruit pods thin, tightly coiled and twisted.
Spines : At branches end of varying lengths longer spines are often leaf bearing.
Can be confused with The Ronjh when not in flower, but the absence of paired spines in the sickle bush is a way of telling them apart.
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SIRIS Albizia Lebbeck
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Leucaena genus : Widely planted as an avenue tree. Reaching up for sunlight in a dense stand, Siris can grow to 30 meter. It has a shallow root system and is liable to be blown down in a high wind. Quick growing but relatively short lived.
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SAPTAPARNI
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SAPTAPARNI .Alstonia scholaris. Devil's Tree. Black Board Tree. Dita Bark tree, White Cheese wood, Milkwood Pine, Satwin,सप्तपर्णी ,शैतान का पेड़ |
SAPTAPARNI : A large evergreen tree from moist forest in the submontane Himalaya where it reaches 30 m or more, but stunted in Delhi. Its glossy leaves radiate from a common center creating stary symmetries. . First planted in Delhi in 1940. It is now a popular avenue tree. Seasons : Leaves : more or less evergreen, new paler, flushes stand out against dark old leaves in March- April and again in the rains.
Flowers : Flowers are not synchronized sometime between mid October and December. Flowers are small greenish, white in tightly packed clusters at the end of branches. Strongly scented, especially in the evenings - a fragrance that makes you turn your head, then wonder if you really like it. Flowering between October and December. It is one of the polluting trees and a cause of Asthma.
Fruit : conspicuous from March onwards beginning to split and give this pert tree a somewhat untidy look in April.
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Bottle Brush Tree : Middle sized tree, widely planted as ornament tree evergreen. The tree is valued for its tolerance of atmospheric pollution, a quality that it must also bank on heavily in Delhi. A graceful willowy tree with slender drooping branches. The largest of all the species of bottle brush capable of reaching 18m but more often only 5-10m tall. The flower spikes are bright scarlet but a host of ornamental forms have been bred with many different colors. Very popular now in Delhi. Season : Leaves : More or less ever green., but noticeable leaf shading in January. New leaves in February- March. More flushes in rains.
Flowers : In the last week of February, prime time mid March. More low key spluttering of flowers from August to October. Flowers small, crowded on spikes about 8 cm long bright scarlet. Petals are disposable luxury for a plant growing in arid conditions and they are tiny and fall off early. Scarlet color is contributed entirely by the long stamens tipped with gold. Stamens are joined in a ring at base.
Fruit : ripen in July -August.
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