Adenanthera pavonina
species of plants
Adenanthera pavonina (red sandalwood) is a species of leguminous tree native to southern Asia and northern Australasia. Its uses include food and drink, traditional medicine, and timber.
Distribution
Its native range extends from India and Sri Lanka east throughout southern Asia to southernmost China (Hainan), Indonesia, and in Australasia in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and northern Australia in Northern Territory and Queensland. It has also been introduced widely within the tropics of the rest of the world, and is naturalised and sometimes invasive in the Philippines, Pakistan, and across much of tropical Africa and the tropical Americas.
Description
Red sandalwood is a medium-sized tree growing to 15–18 m tall with a trunk up to 45 cm diameter. The leaves are bipinnate, up to 40 cm long, with (2–)3–5 pairs of pinnae, each pinna with 8-21 alternate leaflets; the leaflets are ovate-oblong, 2-4.3 cm long and 1 cm broad. The flowers are produced on slender racemes up to 30 cm long, each flower around 1 cm wide, with five small creamy white petals. The fruit is a curved pod up to 22 cm long and 2 cm broad, containing 8-12 hard, bright red pea-like seeds.
Other common names
Other common names for Adenanthera pavonina include Acacia coral, arbre À Église, bead tree, Circassian seed, corail végétal, coral wood, madhoshi, moralitos, curly bean, deleite, Delicia, dilmawi, Graine-réglisse, jumbi-bead, l'Église, peronías, Peonía, Peonía extranjera, piriquiti, red bead tree, and réglisse. Barbados pride, peacock flower fence, sandalwood tree, saga, and manchadi are additional common names In Kerala where Adenanthera pavonina trees are abundant, the seeds are called Manjadi (മഞ്ചാടി).
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