Trees of Lalbagh, Bangalore - Tipuana tipu - Tipu Tree

[raman]

Tipu Tree is a medium-sized tree native to Southern Brazil and to Bolivia. It has reddish-brown fissured bark. Leaves of Tipu Tree are briefly decidious - so the tree is semi-evergreen. Leaves are alternate, opposite and imparipinnate. They can be up to 1 foot long. Indidual leaflets are about 6 cm long, slightly staggered oval, numbering 23 or a few less. The leaflets are slightly paler below. The flowers are borne in axillary racemes 10-15 cm long. The flowers are golden yellow, sometimes orangish, shaped like sweet-pea flowers, very ornamental, 2 cm in diameter. The standard petal is 1.5-1.8 cm long. Sepals are short, triangular. The flowers produce 3-inch long by 1-inch-wide pods. Tipu Tree is mostly used as an ornamental street tree.

Raman

[Balkar Singh]

Never heard or seen this. interesting Name

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 6:50 PM, raman <raman_ar...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Tipu Tree is a medium-sized tree native to Southern Brazil and to Bolivia. It has reddish-brown fissured bark. Leaves of Tipu Tree are briefly decidious - so the tree is semi-evergreen. Leaves are alternate, opposite and imparipinnate. They can be up to 1 foot long. Indidual leaflets are about 6 cm long, slightly staggered oval, numbering 23 or a few less. The leaflets are slightly paler below. The flowers are borne in axillary racemes 10-15 cm long. The flowers are golden yellow, sometimes orangish, shaped like sweet-pea flowers, very ornamental, 2 cm in diameter. The standard petal is 1.5-1.8 cm long. Sepals are short, triangular. The flowers produce 3-inch long by 1-inch-wide pods. Tipu Tree is mostly used as an ornamental street tree.

Raman

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[Mahadeswara]

This is found in Mysore as well. Please see my earlier postings on
this tree.

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[Tanay Bose]

An awesome gallantry name for a tree I never knew this plant

before. Thanks a lot for sharing this interesting plant.

Tanay

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[Nidhan Singh]

Very interesting plant... does the name has anything to do with the Great Tipu Sultan?



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