- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Cassia fistula
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Fabaceae (Caesalpinioideae)
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Golden shower, Kanikkonna
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- March – May.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native to the Indian subcontinent and adjacent regions of Southeast Asia.
- 💡 Status
- Least Concern.
Description: Medium-sized deciduous tree. Leaves paripinnate, leaflets 4-8 pairs, ovate or ovate-oblong. Flowers yellow, in many-flowered pendulous racemes. Fruit terete, pendulous, indehiscent pod.
Uses: Often grown as an ornamental tree. Bark ids medicinal. Fruit pulp is a strong purgative.