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Cassia

Senna spectabilis

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Description:

Cassia is a medium to large tree from tropical America and reaches 60 feet in height, but is often much smaller. The pinnately compound leaflets have fuzzy undersides and are three inches long. The bright yellow flowers are 1.5 inches wide but appear in dense racemes up to two feet long. The cylindrical seedpods which follow are 12 inches long.

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Bhagya Herath
beautiful capture Sachindra ..... please consider adding it to the mission http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/37356110

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Biodiversity of Sri Lanka
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PublishedOctober 21, 2013

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