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Division
|
Angiosperms |
Class
|
Dicotledons |
Subclass |
Polypetalae |
Order |
Rosales |
Series |
Calyciflorae |
Family
|
Mimosaceae |
Genus
|
Albizia |
Species
|
lebbek |
Etymology: |
In honour of famous Italian naturalist Filippo del Albizi. |
Botanical name
|
Albizia lebbek Benth. |
Local/Trade names:
|
East Indian Walnut, Siras, Kokko, Women’s Tongue Tree |
Conservation status:
|
Commonly found wild in India. |
Digonestic features:
|
Bark almost blackish; flowers yellowish. |
Description:
|
Deciduous tree, upto 25 m high. Bark rough, dark brown, almost blackish,irregularly cracked. Leaves bipinnate, 8-20 cm long; leaflets 5-9 pairs, obliquely oblong, the terminal obovate. Flowers creamy-white, scented, in globose umbellate heads. Pod 25 cm long, straw coloured, shining. Seeds 4-12, ellipsoid-oblong, flat. |
Phenology: |
Fls.: & Frts.: May-Sept. |
Distribution:
|
India, tropics and sub-tropics of the old world. |
Where to see it: |
Ornamental Flowering Section and Medicinal Plant Garden. |
Uses: |
Wood excellent for high class furniture, internal decoration and paneling, parquet and strip flooring, and railway carriage work. Also, used for construction purposes, agricultural implements, oil pressers, agricultural implements, oil pressers, cane crushers, carts and carriage, well-curbs, and carving. Tree yields a gum used as an adulterant of Gum Arabic. Bark used for tanning fishing-nets (tannin 7-11%). Leaves and seeds used for eye troubles; bark for boils. |
Chief Conservator of Forests & Chief Wildlife Warden is the Head of the Department. There is one post of Conservator of Forests & two posts of Deputy Conservator of Forests viz.