Golden Shower
Layer: Tall trees
USDA Hardiness Zone: 9 - 11
Edible: Yes
Edible parts: Flowers, Fruit, Inner bark, Leaves, Seed, Shoots
Edible uses: Gum, Sweetener
Light requirement: Full sun
Water requirement: Moist
Soil texture preferences: Light sandy, Medium, Heavy clay
Utilities: Lumber, Dye, Gum, Tannin, Fire starter, Animal feed, Pest control, Pioneer, Alcohol, Fencing, Coppice
Native To: Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
Introduced To: Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
Warnings: Weed potential
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- 1000 seed weight (g)
- 666
- Alternate name
- Purging cassia, golden chain tree, indian laburnum, cassia fistula other names: ai-kadus, alash, ali, amaltas, amultas, bahava, bahawa, bereska, cana pistula, chaiya-pruek, garmala, girimalah, girmala, golden rain tree, golden rain, guolong liang, kakke, khuun, kiar, kirwara, konnai, konnei, koon, ngu, phung-ril, pudding-pipe tree, rajah kayu, rajataru, rajbrikh, rajbriksh, rela, riechpuhs, sarakkondrai, sonalu, sonaru, sundali, suvarnaka, trengguli
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Growth
- Slow
- Height
- 18.0
- Introduced into
- Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya
- Plants for a future
- https://pfaf.org/User/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Cassia fistula
- Plants of the world online
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:484507-1
- Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassia_fistula
Slug: cassia-fistula-golden-shower
Permapeople ID: 3516