Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Caesalpiniaceae | Genus: Tamarindus | Species: Tamarindus indica Linn. |
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| Synonym | Tamarindus occidentalis Gaertn., Tamarindus officinalis Hook., Tamarindus officinalis Hook. | Flower Color | Red - Pink |
| Common Name | Imli | Flower Type | Raceme |
| English / Trade Name | Tamarind | Flowering Period | Jan-March |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Imli | Fruiting Period | April-June |
| Altitude | 1500 m | Fruit Type | Pod |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | The fruit is an indehiscent legume, sometimes called a pod, 12 to 15 cm in length, with a hard, brown shell |
| Habitat | Found growing along stream and river banks | Bark Type | Rugged |
| Distribution | Native of tropical Africa and now it has now spread to Africa, India, and tropical Asia, as well as South America, West Indies, and Major islands in Indian Ocean | Bark Details | Bark rough, fissured, grayish-brown |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Sector 7, Sector 26, Sector 27, Sector 29 | Origin | Exotic |
| Leaf Type | Compound | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Elliptic | ||
| Description of Species | Trees, to 20 m high, bark brown to brownish-black, rough with vertical fissures; branchlets warty, tomentose. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; stipules lateral, minute, cauducous; rachis 8-13 cm long, slender, glabrous, pulvinate; leaflets 20-34, opposite, sessile, estipellate; lamina 1.5-4 × 0.4-1.3 cm, oblong, base unequal, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 10-15 pairs, pinnate, slender, obscure, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerve; intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, 1 cm across, yellow with reddish-pink dots, in lax terminal racemes; bracts and bracteoles ovate-oblong, coloured, cauducous; pedicels upto 5 mm; calyx tube narrowly turbinate, lined by disc; lobes 4, subequal, oblong, imbricate; petals 3, outer one, 1 × 0.3 cm, rolled up, pink dotted, lateral 2, 1-1.5 × 0.7-1 cm, clawed, subequal, oblong-lanceolate, lower pair scaly; stamens 9 monadelphous, only 3 fertile, others reduced to bristle, base pubescent; anthers versatile; ovary half inferior, stipitate, adnate to the disc, ovules many; style attenuate, tomentose; stigma globose. Fruit a pod 10-15 × 1-2 cm, oblong, fruit wall crustaceous, mesocarp pulpy, endocarp septate, leathery, indehiscent; seeds 3-8 or more, obovoid-orbicular, compressed, brown. | Leaf Details | Leaves paripinnate, alternate; stipules lateral, minute, cauducous; rachis 8-13 cm long, slender, glabrous, pulvinate; leaflets 20-34, opposite, sessile, estipellate; lamina 1.5-4 × 0.4-1.3 cm, oblong, base unequal, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 10-15 pairs, pinnate, slender, obscure, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerve; intercostae reticulate, obscure. |
