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	Saraca ''Saraca'' L. is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae (legume family) of about 20 plant species of trees native to the lands from India and Sri Lanka to Indochina, southern China Malesia, and New Guinea. This plant can be grown outdoors in distinctly warm humid climates, and prefer a moist, well-drained soil with plenty of organic matter. It can also be grown within greenhouses. The trees themselves are grown for their clustered, upturned flowers in yellow, orange or red. The tree's flowers lack petals, having brightly colored sepals, and have stamens projecting up to eight inches long. The leaves are pinnate, with paired leaflets. Typically, these trees are accustomed to the shade of other trees. Most species of ''Saraca'' are associated with particular bodies of water. The species '' Saraca asoca'' is believed to be the tree under which Buddha was born. Red saraca is the provincial tree of Yala province, Thailand. Species 12 species are accepted: * '' Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Saraca Schmidiana ''Saraca'' Carl Linnaeus, L. is a genus of flowering plants in the family (biology), family Fabaceae (legume family) of about 20 plant species of trees native to the lands from India and Sri Lanka to Indochina, southern China Malesia, and New Guinea. This plant can be grown outdoors in distinctly warm humid climates, and prefer a moist, well-drained soil with plenty of organic matter. It can also be grown within greenhouses. The trees themselves are grown for their clustered, upturned flowers in yellow, orange or red. The tree's flowers lack petals, having brightly colored sepals, and have stamens projecting up to eight inches long. The leaves are pinnate, with paired leaflets. Typically, these trees are accustomed to the shade of other trees. Most species of ''Saraca'' are associated with particular bodies of water. The species ''ashoka tree, Saraca asoca'' is believed to be the tree under which Gautama Buddha, Buddha was born. Saraca declinata, Red saraca is the provincia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Saraca Monodelpha ''Saraca'' L. is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae (legume family) of about 20 plant species of trees native to the lands from India and Sri Lanka to Indochina, southern China Malesia, and New Guinea. This plant can be grown outdoors in distinctly warm humid climates, and prefer a moist, well-drained soil with plenty of organic matter. It can also be grown within greenhouses. The trees themselves are grown for their clustered, upturned flowers in yellow, orange or red. The tree's flowers lack petals, having brightly colored sepals, and have stamens projecting up to eight inches long. The leaves are pinnate, with paired leaflets. Typically, these trees are accustomed to the shade of other trees. Most species of ''Saraca'' are associated with particular bodies of water. The species '' Saraca asoca'' is believed to be the tree under which Buddha was born. Red saraca is the provincial tree of Yala province, Thailand. Species 12 species are accepted: * '' Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Saraca Declinata ''Saraca declinata'', the red saraca or sorrowless tree, is a tree in genus ''Saraca'' belonging to the family ''Fabaceae''. The species is found both in Thailand and Burma,Kress, W. John, DeFilipps, Robert A., Farr, Ellen, & Kyi, Daw Yin Yin. (2003). ''A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs, and Climbers of Myanmar.'' Washington, D. C.: National Museum of Natural History. and has been introduced in Ceylon Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, .... In Cambodia. it's called Cheay Sbay (Veil rim - ជាយស្បៃ) or Kam roteh thum (កាំរទេះធំ). References declinata Trees of Myanmar Trees of Thailand Taxa named by William Jack (botanist) {{Fabaceae-tree-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Saraca Asoca ''Saraca asoca'', commonly known as the ashoka tree (lit. "sorrow-less"), is a plant belonging to the Detarioideae subfamily of the Fabaceae family of plants (also referred to as the legume, pea, or bean family). The tree is native to the Indian subcontinent, with its native range extending from Pakistan to the west, through India and Bangladesh to Myanmar in the east, and from Bhutan and Nepal in the north to Sri Lanka in the south. Within its native range, it is primarily growing in seasonally dry tropical forests. It is an important tree to multiple cultural traditions across the Indian subcontinent and beyond. The flower of ashoka tree is the state flower of Indian state of Odisha. Description The ashoka is a rain-forest tree. Its original distribution was in the central areas of the Deccan plateau, as well as the middle section of the Western Ghats in the western coastal zone of the Indian subcontinent. The ashoka is prized for its beautiful foliage and fragrant flower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Saraca Celebica ''Saraca celebica'', commonly known locally as Sejenis Ashoka, in is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a tree found only in Sulawesi in Indonesia. Description ''Saraca celebica'' is a tree which grows up to in height. Leaves are 3-4 rows of jugate leaflets, growing long, with a short petiole, measuring long and with a rachis long, blackish-brown when dry. Leaflets are subcoriaceous and glabrous, elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, and rarely ovate, measuring long by wide with petioles. Leaflets above are usually not larger than the lower ones and leaf bases are often accompanied by small marginal glands. Flowers are orange-red and fragrant. Corymbes are erect, compact, about wide, glabrous, with branches up to thick. Bracts and bracteoles are caducous, subequal in size and shape, fusiform, ovate or obovate, with an obtuse or acute tips, growing about long and wide. Calyxes are , rarely , long, thick. Pedicels are long for the section between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Saraca Thaipingensis ''Saraca thaipingensis'' is a tree species native to southeast Asia in the family Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ... . It has yellow flowers, borne on old wood, and is grown as an ornamental for floral effect. Common names include yellow ashoka and yellow saraca. Taxonomy ''Saraca thaipingensis'' was first described by Nathaniel Cantley in 1897. References * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Saraca Thailandica ''Saraca thailandica'', known locally as ''ta na'' (Karen) and ''sok lueang Mae Moei'' (), is an endangered species of tree in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Detarioideae. It is endemic to Thailand but may also grow in Myanmar. The pods and seeds of the tree are consumed by the Karen people. Description ''Saraca thailandica'' is a flowering tree growing up to tall. The bark is blackish-brown and lenticellate. Leaves are paripinnate, growing to about long, glabrescent and subcoriaceous; the rachis is long and the petioles are short, , swollen at the lower part, about in diameter, and glabrescent. Leaflets are in 3-6 pairs, ovate, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, measuring , with bases rounded to cuneate and apexes acute to acuminate; leaflets of the lowest pair are distinctly smaller than the rest; leaflet petiolules are . Inflorescences are normally cauliflorous, on woody tubercles and some on leafy branches, corymbose, measuring in diameter; the peduncle is lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Saraca Dives ''Saraca dives'', is a tree species in genus '' Saraca'' belonging to the family Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ... , native to China, Laos, and Vietnam. References External links * dives Trees of Laos Trees of Vietnam Trees of China {{Fabaceae-tree-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Saraca Griffithiana ''Saraca griffithiana'' (in the family Fabaceae Lindl.) is a tree native to Yunnan Province of China and also to Burma (Myanmar). It is a forest tree sometimes attaining a height of 18 m (54 feet). It can be distinguished from the related ''Saraca dives ''Saraca dives'', is a tree species in genus '' Saraca'' belonging to the family Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae, References griffithiana [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ashoka Tree Ashoka tree is a common name for two plants which are frequently confused with each other: '' Saraca asoca'', native to South Asia and western Myanmar '' Saraca indica'', native to eastern Myanmar and Southeast Asia '' Monoon longifolium'' is sometimes called the "false ashoka" {{Plant common name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]