Family: Fabaceae
Synonym: Cytisus pinnatus L.
Vernacular name: Ungu
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Deciduous
Distribution: Southern and Eastern Asia, Australia
Flowering and fruiting: February-June
Key identification features: Trees with leaves imparipinnate, dark green above, pale green beneath. Flowers white, in simple axillary, racemes. Calyx brown, subtruncate. Corolla white; Pods woody, glabrous, flattened, oblong, indehiscent. Seeds 1-2, reniform, white streaked with brown
Uses: The leaves are bitter and not preferred by animals. Leaves are used to make roof of festival pandhals. Bark is used to wash the idols of Gods. The fruit is to cure whooping cough of children.
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