Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Corky Coral Tree, Indian Coral Tree

Hindi Name : धौल ढाक | Scientific Name : Erythrina suberosa
Family : Fabaceae
Uses : It is a plant commonly used as an ornamental tree, but it also holds ethnopharmacological and socioeconomic uses. Because of its fast growth and nitrogen fixing properties it would be considered a good farm forestry tree. It is highly regarded as a landscape improvement tree and also used as fuel.
Native: Indian Subcontinent to Peninsula Malaysia
General Description:

It is a medium sized throny tree with distinctly orange, corky bark and an irregular crown. The tree is a captivating sight when in bloom, with clusters of bright, orange-scarlet up-facing flower clusters sitting at the end of branchlets like exotic waterlilies. Leaves are compound with three broad leaflets, the middle one the largest. Leaflets are hairless above and wooly velvet-hairy beneath, leathery; 3-ribbed from the base, lateral nerves 4-5 pairs. Flowers have 5 petals of unequal length, and 10 stamens. Corky Coral Tree is native to the dry, mixed forests throughout India.