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Family: Bignoniaceae	Genus: Spathodea	Species: Spathodea campanulata P.Beauv.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Bignonia tulipifera Schum., Spathodea nilotica Seem.	Flower Color	Yellow - Orange
Common Name	Rugtoora	Flower Type	Raceme
English / Trade Name	African tulip tree, flame of the forest, tulip tree, squirt tree, fountain tree, Nile flame, Nandi flame, Uganda flame, African tulip tree	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Rugtoora	Fruiting Period	Oct-Dec
Altitude	Up to 1200m	Fruit Type	Pod
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruit upstanding, dark brown, cigar-shaped, woody pod, split on the ground into 2 boat-shaped valves, releasing many flat winged seeds.
Habitat	Plains to high altitude, Cultivated.	Bark Type	Fissured
Distribution	Native of Tropical Africa	Bark Details	Bark pale, grey-brown and smooth but turns grey-black, scaly and cracked vertically and horizontally with age.
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Pinnate
Description of Species	A medium sized tree up to 25 m tall, deciduous, with a round. Bark pale, grey-brown and smooth but turns grey-black, scaly and cracked vertically and horizontally with age. Leaves opposite imparipinnate, exstipulate, consists of 5- 7 pairs of opposite leaflets. imparipinnate, leaflets oblong elliptic, entire, broadly acuminate, unequal at the base. Flowers large, red, hermaphrodite, orange inside; calyx green, split on the posterior side, ribbed and tomentellous; corolla 5; stamens 4 with orange filaments. Fruit upstanding, dark brown, cigar-shaped, woody pod, split on the ground into 2 boat-shaped valves, releasing many flat winged seeds.	Leaf Details	Leaves opposite imparipinnate, exstipulate, consists of 5- 7 pairs of opposite leaflets. imparipinnate, leaflets oblong elliptic, entire, broadly acuminate, unequal at the base.

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