Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Java Cassia, Pink Cassia, Pink Shower

Hindi Name : जावा रानी | Scientific Name : Cassia javanica subsp. agnes
Family : Caesalpiniaceae
Uses : The wood is used for general construction, furniture and cabinet making. The bark has been used for tanning leather, but the amount of tannin is comparatively low. The ripe pods and seeds are used as a traditional laxative throughout the Malesian area. In Thailand, bark and seeds are also used as antipyretics. It is extensively used as an ornamental and roadside tree.
Native: Java and Sumatra
General Description:

It is a deciduous. tree with branchlets drooping, slender, thinly greyish. Flowers are borne in lat­eral racemes on short side branches. Sepals are green, ovate. Petals are pinkish, ovate, 2.5-3 x 1-1.5cm. Stamens are 10, among them 3 lower ante-­sepalous with longer filaments than other 7. Ovary is linear, whitish velvet-hairy. Leaves are compound, 15-30cm; leaflets 5-12 pairs, 2-5 × 1.2-2cm, somewhat leathery, below hairy, above sparsely finely velvet-hairy, base slightly asymmetric, tip pointed or blunt. Pod is blackish brown, cylindrical, 30-45cm long, 1-1.5cm wide, with prominent annular nodes.