Summary[
edit] Description: Family: Caesalpinaceae Local name(Telugu): Seematumma, Distribution: Found on tank bunds and also grown as hedge plant. Native of Tropical America and widley naturalized in tropics.Photographed at Nellore. Armed shrubs, 2-3 m tall; Leaves bipinnate, stipules spinescent, rachis green ribbon like, leaflets often early deciduous; Flowers yellow, in axillary racemes. pedicels long, bract small, calyx tube short, lobes membranous, subequal; petals 5 spreading with short broad claws, odd petal with red spots., stamens 10 free, anthers uniform, ovary shortly stalked, many ovuled, Pods linear, beaked, finally dehiscent,Seeds edible. Date: 15 February 2011, 17:39. Source:
Parkinsonia aculeata L.. Author:
Lalithamba from India.