Cassia fistula L.

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Flora of Niue Island
TRUMAN G. YUNCRER HERBARIUM
OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY (OPU)
PURCHASED BY NY IN 1987
DEPAUW UNIV.
HERBARIUM.
HERBARIUM 97nrc
T. G. YUNCKER SiKI®
Herbarium of Bernice P. Bishop Museum
no. 9304
©assla fistula L.
Tree Ja, tall; fls. yellöw. €u£tlv-
ateá ornamental. Not common on Wie
island. Alofi. 20 m. alt.
, Coll. T. G. Yuncxsk ^att. 22,	1940.
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Recently introduced (9804). Very decorative and usually easily grown.
English name, golden shower.
Spec. Plant., 377, 1753.
medium-sized, glabrous, spreading tree. Leaves alternate, pinnate, leaflets
ovate, up to 15 or more cm. long, acute, petiolules about 5 mm. long. Flowers
yellow, about 3 cm. wide, on long, slender pedicels, in pendulous, racemose clusters
or more cm. long. Pod cylindrical, up to 50 or more cm. long and 1 or more cm. thick.
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