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Botanical Name: Oroxylum indicum
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Family: Bignoniaceae
Common Name: टेटू
Etymology - Genus: From the Greek oros (mountain) and xylon (wood)
Etymology - Species: Of or from India
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
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Description: Medium size deciduous tree. Rough black bark with presence of lenticels. Impressions of fallen leaf is clearly visible on the bark.Tripinnately compound leaf. Leaf grows so large that it can be mistaken for a branch.Leaflets are perfectly elliptical.Flowers appear in raceme at the end of the branches.White flowers, size of a cup, bloom at night and have a bad smell. Pollination happens by Bats.Didynamous stamen and two carpels, typical family character.Foot long, sword like, brown, black pod give an impression of a elephant tooth.Pod has many seeds with white transparent feathers. When pod opens numerous seeds burst open and float over wind to spread all around. Seeds are easy to germinate.
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Root type: Taproot
Stem Appearance: Tree
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Black, rough
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Medium size deciduous tree. Rough black bark with presence of lenticels. Impressions of fallen leaf is clearly visible on the bark.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Tripinnate-Imparipinnate
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Tripinnately compound leaf. Leaf grows so large that it can be mistaken for a branch.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Elliptic
Lamina Bases: Rounded
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Acute
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Leaflets are perfectly elliptical.
Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Raceme
Bract:
Inflorescence Description: Flowers appear in raceme at the end of the branches.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Zygomorphic
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Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Imbricate
Flower Description: White flowers, size of a cup, bloom at night and have a bad smell. Pollination happens by Bats.
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Zygomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance:
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement: Campanulate
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther: Dorsifixed
Androecium Length of filament: Didynamous
Androecium Union of Stamens: Epipetalous
Androecium Number of Stamens: 4
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels: Syncarpous
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 2
Floral Parts Description: Didynamous stamen and two carpels, typical family character.
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Fruit type: Capsule
Fruit type Description: Foot long, sword like, brown, black pod give an impression of a elephant tooth.
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Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
Dispersion Method: Wind
Preprocessing for germination: No pre-processing required
Germination time: about a week
Seed shelf life:
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Seed Description: Pod has many seeds with white transparent feathers. When pod opens numerous seeds burst open and float over wind to spread all around. Seeds are easy to germinate.
