Cassia roxburghii Dc.

Roxburgh's cassia (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Cassia

Characteristics

A perennial hermaphrodite tree. It grows 5-10m high.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 5.0 - 10.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 10-11

Usage

Uses environmental use fuel fuelwood material medicinal wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use Hemagglutination (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 7 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) 1
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Flower

Cassia roxburghii flower picture by Dr Ashwathanarayana Rao (cc-by-sa)
Cassia roxburghii flower picture by Roopa Roopa J.  Kumar (cc-by-sa)
Cassia roxburghii flower picture by Herwig Mees (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Cassia roxburghii world distribution map, present in Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Belize, Brazil, Bhutan, China, Cook Islands, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Indonesia, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Northern Mariana Islands, Mauritius, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, Seychelles, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Taiwan, Province of China, Uganda, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:485162-1
WFO ID wfo-0000164654
COL ID RM3G
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 447037
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Cassia marginata Cathartocarpus marginatus Cathartocarpus roxburghii Cassia roxburghii