10 Graines Flamboyant jaune, Peltophorum pterocarpum

Flamboyant yellow, peltophorum pterocarpum |

Flamboyant yellow, Peltophorum pterocarpum.

10 seeds  -  Average germination: 60% - The seeds are immersed at a temperature of 60 ° C. Soak the seeds in this water which will gradually cool for 48 hours, sowing at 20 ° C night / 30 ° C day. - not very rustic: - 5 ° C

Peltophorum pterocarpum (sometimes called fire tree, flamboyant yellow, flamboyant from India) is a kind of tree of the genus Peltophorum originating from the south-east of theAsia Tropical and northernAustralasia in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, MALAISIE, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Philippines and islands off the coast of Northern Territory, in Australia.

It is a deciduous tree measuring 15 to 25 m (rarely up to 50 m) in height, with a diameter of the trunk of a maximum of 1 m. The leaves are pinned, 30 to 60 cm long, with 16 to 20 pennies, each penne himself having 20 to 40 oval leaflets from 8 to 25 mm long and 4 to 10 mm wide. The flowers are yellow, 2.5 to 4 cm in diameter, grouped in large clusters that can measure up to 20 cm long.

The fruit is a clove 5 to 10 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, red at the start and becoming black at maturity and contenting from one to four seeds. The trees are starting to flower around four years.

Peltophorum pterocarpum is widely cultivated in tropical regions as an ornamental tree, in particular in India, in Nigeria, in Pakistan and in Florida and Hawaii at United States. Wood has a wide variety of uses and foliage is used as a fodder plant.

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