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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Does Angsana bear flowers?

I just needed to confirm. Is Angsana Plant a flowering or a non-flowering plant?Does it bear flowers or not ?

Does Angsana bear flowers?
Angsana is The Burmese Rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus).





The family is Fabaceae .





It is a tree that yields valuable timber.





It is known as Narra in the Philippines, Sonokembang in Indonesia,





It is known as Angsana or Sena in Malaysia and Singapore, padouk in Fiji, tnug in Cambodia, and Pradu in Thailand. Narra is the national tree of the Philippines.








Description:-








The Burmese Rosewood is a tall deciduous tree that could reach 30 meters to up to 48 meters in places where it is indigenous. Leaves can be 12 to 22 cm long and its petiole about 2 to 4 cm long.





IMPORTANT STATEMENTS BELOW FOR YOU -----





The flowers can be few to numerous and blooms from February to May in the Philippines, Borneo and the Malay peninsula.





They are fragrant and bears yellow or orange-yellow petals. The fruits are semiorbicular and is about 6 cm in diameter.








The fruit, which ripens within 4-6 months, becomes brown when dry.





It has a membranaceous wing used for dispersion.





Most Pterocarpus species prefer seasonal weather but P. indicus prefer rainforests.





Thus it is a flowering plant .photos on the link below just click on them ------


http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/green/graphics/pl...





fruit of the plant --


http://bio.fiu.edu/trees/images/Pterocar...


http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/Dat...



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