Mhow, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Nature Note From Mhow: The Beautiful Amaltas....
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Mhow, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Nature Note From Mhow: The Beautiful Amaltas....
Taxonomic Name: Cassia fistula
Common Names:
Bengali: Bandarlati, Amaltas, Sondal
English: Indian Laburnum, Golden Shower, Pudding Pipe Tree, Purging Fistula
Hindi: Amaltas, Girmala
Kannada: Kakke
Malayalam: Kanni Konna, Vishu Konna (The State Tree of Kerala)
Marathi: Bahava
Meitei (Manipuri): Chahui
Nepali: Rajbriksya, Amaltash
Oriya: Sandari
Punjabi: Alash
Sanskrit: Aragvadha, Chaturangula, Kritamala, Suvarnuka
Tamil: Appal, Tiru Kontai, Konrai
Telugu: Relu, Aragvadhamu
Thai: Chaiyaphruek
What a beautiful tree this is. I wait for it to flower every year in the month of April. I cannot imagine the festival of Vishu in Kerala being celebrated without this flower. If I am unable to get this flower for our puja room on Vishu I make sure I get any shade of yellow as close to the colour of the Amaltas. Ezra Pound had once said, "The difference between a gun and a tree is tempo. The tree explodes every spring." An apt quotation for this tree.
It is used extensively in Ayurveda.
In his book Trees of Delhi the nature lover Pradip Krishen writes about how an Englishman named Robert Troup conducted an experiment in Dehra Dun in the early part of the last century and came to the conclusion that the Amaltas needed the help of animals like jackals, civets, monkeys, bears and even the porcupine to propagate. When these animals crack open the pods to eat the pulp they also pass the seeds through their alimentary canals and this makes the seeds more conducive to germinating. A fascinating piece of information this.
Camera: SONY DSC H9.
The previous nature note from Mhow was on The Jungle Jalebi....
The Wikipedia article on this tree: Click here. Close
Hi Kalkal... thanks for the visit and the appreciation shown... keep visiting please... regards... Dev
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Really sire,very beautiful......................thank to you to view me such a natural phograph of Amaltas tree.................with full information about it.as a fact,again given a new look to the nature by your talent.
Thank you
your's Kalkal................sorry for delay
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Well... i feel you should post Nature Notes from Kerala using the images from your Nokia N 70.... am sure all of us would love visiting your blog to read them....
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Thanks Dev.
These were taken with my Nokia N-70!!
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Lovely pictures shail.. these deserve to be a blog post by themselves.. thanks for the visit and these lovely 'comments'... regards... dev
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Wow!!!!
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The golden flowers against the bright blue sky:
The yellow carpet in my front yard:
Hope you like the pictures!!
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The Golden Shower tree justifies its name!! Here is a picture from me Dev:
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Hi patrick .. thanks for the visit and the comment... glad you liked this post.. regards.. dev..
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truly a beautiful tree. it is currently in bloom in many parts of calcutta along with other flowering trees of which i know some of the bangla names, and they can prettify a city better than any man-made structure ever will! thanks for the info and the sharing. - patrick
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