Flowering · Medicinal
Siamese cassia
Senna siamea (Lam.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
Sri Lanka and Indochina
Fun factThe dark heartwood is sold as 'pheasantwood' for turnery and carving, and the tree has grown on the grounds of Iolani Palace in Honolulu since its introduction to Hawaii around 1865.
A medium-sized, fast-growing legume tree with a short, low-branching trunk, smooth grey bark and a dense rounded crown that becomes spreading and irregular with age. It carries racemes of golden-yellow flowers at the branch tips from just two or three years old, followed by long flat pods. Widely planted across the tropics as a roadside and shade tree, it has also become naturalised in many places and is rated a high weed risk in Hawaii and the Pacific.
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3on the estate
0carrying a tag
0sponsored
FamilyFabaceae
Spanish nameFlamboyán amarillo
Also known asKassod tree, Thailand shower, Yellow cassia, Pheasantwood, Flamboyán amarillo
Native toSri Lanka and Indo-China (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam), in seasonally dry tropical lowland forest and along river banks
| Tag | Garden area | Zone | Planted | Status | Sponsored | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Home Driveway | — | 5 July 2019 | Planted | — | Yellow Cassia. Quite small when planted |
| — | Home Driveway | — | 5 July 2019 | Planted | — | Yellow Cassia. Quite small when planted |
| — | Home Driveway | — | 5 July 2019 | Planted | — | Yellow Cassia. Quite small when planted |
3 of these have no tag yet; they will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.