13-758: Peltophorum pterocarpum (commonly known as copperpod , yellow-flamboyant , yellow flametree , yellow poinciana or yellow-flame ) is a species of Peltophorum , native to tropical southeastern Asia and a popular ornamental tree grown around the world. It is a deciduous tree growing to 15–25 m (rarely up to 50 m) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m belonging to Family Leguminosae and sub-family Caesalpiniaceaea. The leaves are bipinnate , 30–60 cm long, with 16–20 pinnae, each pinna with 20–40 oval leaflets 8–25 mm long and 4–10 mm broad. The flowers are yellow, 2.5–4 cm in diameter and produced in large compound raceme up to 20 cm long. Pollens are approximately 50 microns in size. The fruit
26-590: A common scheme for avenue trees in India alternately with Delonix regia (Poinciana) to give a striking yellow and red effect in summer, as has been done on Hughes road in Mumbai . The wood has a wide variety of uses, including cabinet-making and the foliage is used as a fodder crop. The brownish colour called sogan typical of batik cloth from inland Java in Indonesia is produced from P. pterocarpum , which
39-399: A description of a particular plant practically loses its value. Use of these terms is not restricted to leaves, but may be applied to morphology of other parts of plants, e.g. bracts , bracteoles , stipules , sepals , petals , carpels or scales . Some of these terms are also used for similar-looking anatomical features on animals. Leaves of most plants include a flat structure called
52-399: A leaf. may be coarsely dentate , having large teeth or glandular dentate , having teeth which bear glands Leaves may also be folded, sculpted or rolled in various ways. If the leaves are initially folded in the bud, but later unrolls it is called vernation , ptyxis is the folding of an individual leaf in a bud. The Latin word for 'leaf', folium , is neuter. In descriptions of
65-517: Is a pod 5–10 cm long and 2.5 cm broad, red at first, ripening black, and containing one to four seeds . Trees begin to flower after about four years. Although it is fast-growing [1] and very drought tolerant [2] , the tree does not tolerate frost [3] and has a very short lifespan of a maximum of 50 years. [4] Peltophorum pterocarpum is native to tropical southeast Asia and northern Australasia : in Australia (including islands off
78-419: Is commonly used for plant identification. Similar terms are used for other plant parts, such as petals , tepals , and bracts . Leaf margins (edges) are frequently used in visual plant identification because they are usually consistent within a species or group of species, and are an easy characteristic to observe. Edge and margin are interchangeable in the sense that they both refer to the outside perimeter of
91-618: Is known there as soga . Peltophorum Baryxylum Lour. Peltophorum is a genus of 5–15 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae , subfamily Caesalpinioideae . The genus is native to certain tropical regions across the world, including northern South America, central and southern Africa, Indochina, southeastern China, Malesia , New Guinea, and northern Australia. The species are medium-sized to large trees growing up to 15–25 m tall, rarely 50 m. Peltophorum literally means "shield-bearing": from Greek pelt(ē) ( πέλτη , " peltē shield "), with
104-516: Is not always clear whether because of ignorance, or personal preference, or because usages change with time or context, or because of variation between specimens, even specimens from the same plant. For example, whether to call leaves on the same tree "acuminate", "lanceolate", or "linear" could depend on individual judgement, or which part of the tree one collected them from. The same cautions might apply to "caudate", "cuspidate", and "mucronate", or to "crenate", "dentate", and "serrate". Another problem
117-535: Is to establish definitions that meet all cases or satisfy all authorities and readers. For example, it seems altogether reasonable to define a mucro as "a small sharp point as a continuation of the midrib", but it may not be clear how small is small enough, how sharp is sharp enough, how hard the point must be, and what to call the point when one cannot tell whether the leaf has a midrib at all. Various authors or field workers might come to incompatible conclusions, or might try to compromise by qualifying terms so vaguely that
130-754: The Northern Territory coast); Sri Lanka ; in Southeast Asia to Indonesia , Malaysia , Papua New Guinea , Philippines , Thailand and Vietnam . The tree is widely grown in tropical regions as an ornamental tree , particularly in India , Nigeria , Pakistan , and Florida and Hawaii in the United States . Used as decorating flower in Telangana State 's Batukamma festival. The trees have been planted alternately in India as
143-429: The blade or lamina, but not all leaves are flat, some are cylindrical. Leaves may be simple, with a single leaf blade, or compound, with several leaflets . In flowering plants , as well as the blade of the leaf, there may be a petiole and stipules ; compound leaves may have a rachis supporting the leaflets. Leaf structure is described by several terms that include: Being one of the more visible features, leaf shape
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#1732794464987156-685: The description and taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (that is, the leaf blade or 'lamina' is undivided) or compound (that is, the leaf blade is divided into two or more leaflets ). The edge of the leaf may be regular or irregular, and may be smooth or have hair, bristles, or spines. For more terms describing other aspects of leaves besides their overall morphology see the leaf article. The terms listed here all are supported by technical and professional usage, but they cannot be represented as mandatory or undebatable; readers must use their judgement. Authors often use terms arbitrarily, or coin them to taste, possibly in ignorance of established terms, and it
169-514: The interfix -o- , -phor(os) ("bearing") and Neo-Latin suffix -um . It is a reference to the peltate (shield-like) form of the plant's stigma . As of September 2023 , the following species were accepted by Plants of the World Online : This Caesalpinioideae -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Peltate The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in
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