- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Peltophorum pterocarpum
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Fabaceae (Caesalpinioideae)
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Copper pod, Yellow flame tree, Charakonna.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- January – May.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native to tropical Southeast Asia and northern Australasia.
- 💡 Status
- Not Evaluated.
Description: Medium-sized ornamental tree. Young branches covered with reddish-brown tomentum. Leaves bipinnate, pinnae 8-12 pairs, leaflets 10-20, oblong. Flowers yellow, in terminal and lateral panicles. Fruit elliptic-oblong, samaroid, indehiscent pod.
Uses: Planted as garden or avenue tree.