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Botanical Name: Prosopis cineraria
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Family: Mimosaceae
Common Name: शमी
Etymology - Genus: Ancient Greek name for burdock - a plant native to Japan, was thought to resemble a face.
Etymology - Species: Ashy-gray, usually the foliage
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: Pune - Mukharji Garden, Rajasthan
Description: Medium size tree with rough cracked, gray or ash coloured bark.Bipinnately compound leaf with 2 pinnae, auriculate (ear shaped) stipule and interpetiolar spines are the distinctive (different from rest of the similar looking species) & persistent (available throughout the year, even is absence of flowers) characters. Branches are drooping and leaves have a typical dirty green or ash green appearance, giving the tree its characteristic profile. This tree is found all over Rajasthan state.Paripinnate, sub-sessile leaflets, oblique and pointed.Long tail like, yellow, catkin inflorescence with pleasant smell.Turgid, long, pointed pods.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Tree
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Rough, cracked
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Medium size tree with rough cracked, gray or ash coloured bark.
Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 21-Apr-2019 17:53 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 16-Nov-2018 08:57 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 16-Nov-2018 08:57 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 21-Apr-2019 17:53 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 21-Apr-2019 17:53 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 21-Apr-2019 17:52 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 16-Nov-2018 08:57 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 21-Apr-2019 17:52 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 21-Apr-2019 17:53 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 29-Nov-2018 13:58 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 3 Photo Date-Time: 19-Oct-2022 16:28 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 3 Photo Date-Time: 19-Oct-2022 16:28 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 7 Photo Date-Time: 20-Oct-2022 13:12 PM
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Auriculate
Leaf Type: Bipinnate-Paripinnate
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Bipinnately compound leaf with 2 pinnae, auriculate (ear shaped) stipule and interpetiolar spines are the distinctive (different from rest of the similar looking species) & persistent (available throughout the year, even is absence of flowers) characters. Branches are drooping and leaves have a typical dirty green or ash green appearance, giving the tree its characteristic profile. This tree is found all over Rajasthan state.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Oblong
Lamina Bases: Oblique
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Acute
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Paripinnate, sub-sessile leaflets, oblique and pointed.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Catkin
Bract: Inconspicuous
Inflorescence Description: Long tail like, yellow, catkin inflorescence with pleasant smell.
Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 2 Photo Date-Time: 21-Oct-2022 16:19 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 2 Photo Date-Time: 21-Oct-2022 16:19 PM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 2 Photo Date-Time: 21-Oct-2022 16:19 PM
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
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Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 2 Photo Date-Time: 21-Oct-2022 16:20 PM
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Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
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Androecium Number of Stamens: 10
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 10 Photo Date-Time: 15-Oct-2022 17:29 PM
Photo Description: Dried pods of Prosopic cineraria
Fruit type: Legume
Fruit type Description: Turgid, long, pointed pods.
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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