Spathodea campanulata P. Beauv.
തണ്ണീർക്കായ്മരം
| Family: | BIGNONIACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Scarlet Bell Tree | ||||
| Synonym: | Bignonia tulipifera Schum. | ||||
| Common Name: | Fountain tree | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | November - May | ||||
| Distribution: | Native in Tropical Africa | ||||
| Habitat: | Planted as an avenue tree, also as shade tree in coffee plantations | ||||
| Uses: | Bark and leaves have anti-bacterial properties, used in traditional medicine in Ghana to treat wounds and burns. Leaves reported to have anti-malarial action. Stem-bark decoctions exhibit blood sugar lowering action. Soft white wood used to make paper, drums and blacksmith's bellows.Seeds boiled to extract poison that is applied to arrowheads. | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Spathodea campanulataare trees with bark smooth, light brownish-grey. Leaves imparipinnate, opposite, decussate; lamina elliptic-oblong, margin entire. Flowers bisexual, bright red, in terminal racemes; calyx, spathaceous, golden velutinous, recurved;. corolla tube bright reddish-orange without, yellowish within; stamens subequal; anthers large; staminodium small; ovary superior, ovate-oblong; stigma 2-lipped, lips flattened. Fruit a capsule, lanceolate-oblong, brownish-black, woody, seeds many, winged. | ||||