Botanical Name: Cassia fistula

Family: Fabaceae

Sanskrit name: Aaragwadha

English name: Golden shower tree

Hindi name: Amaltaas

Kannada name: Kakke

Habit: Tree

Habitat: Open, warm areas with moderate rain fall

Plant Description:

A large deciduous tree growing upto 40 feet tall. Leaves are bipinnate. The treesheds its leaves and bursts into a mass of long, grape-bunches like yellow gold flowers during late spring. The fruits are dark-brown cylindrical pods measure up to 2' long, the fruit pulp is brown and is sweet in taste. Seeds are many.

Distribution: South East Asia

Part used: Leaves, fruit, flowers, bark

Medicinal uses: Fruit pulp is used as purgative. Used in skin diseases, fever, constipation, bleeding disorders.

Other uses: Leaves as fodder to cattle.