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Cassia Fistula: COMMON NAME: Amaltas BOTNICAL NAME: Cassia Fistula Other Name

Cassia fistula, commonly known as the golden shower tree, is a deciduous tree that can reach 10 meters in height. It produces long cylindrical pods containing black seeds and bears bright yellow flowers in hanging clusters. The leaves are feather compound with 4-8 pairs of large leaflets. The bark is initially smooth and yellow but becomes rough and dark grey as the tree ages. Cassia fistula has several medicinal and practical uses, including as an ornamental tree, source of dye, treatment for skin diseases and ulcers, and for making charcoal and tool handles. It requires full sun and well-draining soil, and regular watering when young to become established.

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Cassia Fistula: COMMON NAME: Amaltas BOTNICAL NAME: Cassia Fistula Other Name

Cassia fistula, commonly known as the golden shower tree, is a deciduous tree that can reach 10 meters in height. It produces long cylindrical pods containing black seeds and bears bright yellow flowers in hanging clusters. The leaves are feather compound with 4-8 pairs of large leaflets. The bark is initially smooth and yellow but becomes rough and dark grey as the tree ages. Cassia fistula has several medicinal and practical uses, including as an ornamental tree, source of dye, treatment for skin diseases and ulcers, and for making charcoal and tool handles. It requires full sun and well-draining soil, and regular watering when young to become established.

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CASSIA FISTULA

COMMON NAME: Amaltas


BOTNICAL NAME: Cassia Fistula
OTHER NAME: Bactyrilobium fistula Willd,
Golden Shower Tree
TYPE: Deciduous
HEIGHT: 10m
FRUITS: Long cylindrical pipe 60cm long green
at first turning black. Mature around march-
April of the year
FLOWER: Bright yellow n long dropping
clusters, 5 petals. They are seen in late April by
mid May the rains, always induce more flushes
of flowering that can last into October.
LEAVES: Feather compound up to 45cm long
with 4-8 pairs of large leaflets. They are shed in
early April renewed in May.
BARK: Smooth Yellowish when young,
coarsening (make or become rough) with age
and become ruddy or dark grey with crusty
plate that fall of
USE: It is Ornamental tree with irregular
canopy. The bark called Sumari is used as a
tan and yields a red dye. A paste made from
roots is used to cure skin diseases and leptosy.
The leaves are reputed to heal ulcers. It is also
use for posts, tool handles. It makes good
fuelwood and excellent charcoal. Also used as
an anti-inflammatory.

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PLANTING AND CARE: Cassia tree care


requires very little, but that little is important

Once your seed has germinated and has


about six leaves, its time to decide where
your tree will be growing
Cassia trees need full sun to flower and
produce the most colorful blossoms

They are tolerant of most soil types with a


neutral pH, and while they like water, they do
best in well drained soils

Dig your whole twice the size of the root ball


and add peat moss and compost to the fill
dirt, adding a handful of slow release fertilizer

Planting a cassia tree this way will give it the


healthiest start

Leave a trough around your tree to collect


water and see that it is watered regularly
until the roots are well established

Young trees need to be staked and will look a


little scrawny for the first five years or so and
then it will begin to fill out

These trees have a tendency to weep so if


you want a fuller look, pruning will be a part
of your early cassia tree care
CARE: Cassia tree care requires very little,
but that little is important

Once your seed has germinated and has


about six leaves, its time to decide where
your tree will be growing

Cassia trees need full sun to flower and


produce the most colorful blossoms

USE: It is used medicinally for treating


constipation, colic, chlorosis and urinary
disorders

Its leaves are effective against herpes


simplex and the bark of Cassia is one of the
ingredients in ayurvedic and other traditional
medicine antidiabetic formulations

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