Showing posts with label Caesalpiniaceae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caesalpiniaceae. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Sunday, October 16, 2016

රණවරා[Ranawara]/Matara Tea/Tanner's cassia(Senna auriculata[Cassia auriculata])

Common native shrub or small tree  occurs in dry zone jungles. Also cultivated in home gardens. Flowering from February to March. Roots, leaves and, seeds are medicinal and dried flowers and flower buds are used as a substitute for tea. 

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Queen of flowering trees/Pride of Burma (Amherstia nobilis)

Native tree of  Myanmar (Former Burma). Introduced to the Peradeniya botanical garden in 1860 and since then it has been cultivated as an ornamental tree. The Queen of flowering trees is now extinct in the wild.

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

සියඹලා[Siyabala]/Tamarind/Indian Date (Tamarindus indica)

Native tree of Africa. Introduced to India at least 3000 years ago. Cultivated in Sri Lankan home gardens and along roadsides in villages. Also naturalized in the dry zone. It is used as a timber tree. Fruits edible and leaves, fruits, seeds and barks are used in Ayurvedic medicine.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

කහ කෝන[Kaha-kona] (Senna spectabilis[Cassia spectabilis])

Native tree of the South America. Introduced and planted as an ornamental, mostly in the hill country near tea plantations. 

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Monday, November 9, 2015

ඇහැළ[Ehela]/Indian Laburnum/Shower of Gold (Cassia fistula)

An indigenous tree widely cultivated as an ornamental along roadsides and home gardens. Good timber tree and whole part of the tree used in traditional medicine.

Friday, August 15, 2014

මයිල [Maila] (Bauhinia racemosa)

Common indigenous tree found in forests and scrub lands of low country dry zone. Fiber of inner bark use to make ropes and gum and leaves have medicinal values.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

පැණි තෝර[Peni-tora]/Coffee-senna/Coffee-weed (Senna occidentalis [Cassia occidentalis])

Common introduced weed in scrublands, road sides and waste places in the low country. Seeds are used as a substitute for coffee and leaves and other parts of the shrub are used in medicinally.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

රත් කොබෝලීල[Rat-koboleela]/Purple orchid tree (Bauhinia purpurea)


Macmillan in 1910 suggested Bauhinia purpurea as a flowering tree suitable for the gardening in low or median elevations due to its “very showy large flowers of a pink shade merging into purple” (Tropical planting and Gardening with special reference to Ceylon - page 80).  It is a native plant of either Southeast Asia (According to the Revised handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 7) or India (According to the Illustrated field guide to the flowers of Sri Lanka J. &J. de Vlas 2008) introduced and widely cultivating in Sri Lankan home gardens. Still it is not naturalized in Sri Lanka.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

රට තෝර[Rata-tora]/Candle bush/Candle stick/rinworm shrub(Senna alata [Cassia alata])

A native plant of tropical America and introduced and cultivated in Sri Lanka.  There are escaped plants grows in waste places, canal banks, tanks and paddy field edges etc. Use as a medicine for ringworm and hence the one of vernacular English name.

Friday, October 22, 2010

අසෝක/දියරතඹල[Ashoka/Diyarathabala](Saraca Asoca)

An indigenous tree of about 9m tall found in low country forests, basically in dry zone and also cultivated in home gardens as an ornamental plant.