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Family: Mimosaceae	Genus: Albizia	Species: Albizia lebbek (Linn.) Benth

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Mimosa lebbeck L.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Siris tree, Woman's tongue, Saras	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	East Indian Walnut, Womans tongue, Black Siris, Siris tree, Lebbek tree, Raom tree, East India walnut, Soros-tree	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Siris	Fruiting Period	Jan-March
Altitude	Plains from the coast to 1200 m, often planted	Fruit Type	Pod
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Pods yellow, oblong, 15-30 × 2.5-5.5 cm, glabrous. Seeds 5-10, oval. Fruit a flat, linear pod, to 30 cm (1 ft) long, with many seeds; dried pods persistent after leaf-fall, often heard rattling in the wind.
Habitat	Deciduous forests, also in the plains	Bark Type	Rugged
Distribution	Throughout India, ascending to 1200 m. Tropical Asia and Africa, usually planted. Indo-Malesia and South China	Bark Details	gray-brown bark ,rather rough and rugosa, cinereous
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Rock garden, Patiala-ki-Rao Reserved Forest, Manimajara and Daria, Sector 1, Sector 7, Sector 15, Sector 23, Sector 26, Sector 31, Sector 36, Sector 37, Sector 45, Sector 46, Sector 52, Sector 56	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Bi-pinnate
Description of Species	Large or moderate-sized tree; bark rather rough and rugosa, cinereous; shoots young leaves and inflorescence densely tomentose. Stipules linear, 4.2 mm, caducous; pinnae 2-4, rarely 5 pairs; rachis with a gland below the uppermost pair of pinnae and at the base; pinnae with a gland below the 2-5 upper pairs of leaflets; stipels 2, minute, above the thickened petiolule of the pinnae when young; leaflets 5-8 pairs, rarely up to 13 pairs, shortly petioluled, oblong or obovate-oblong, 1.8-5.6 × 0.8-2.5 cm, rounded or obtuse, glabrescent, drying green, mid-nerve towards the distal margin, base rounded, 4-5-nerved. Flower-heads ca. 3 cm across; peduncles stout, 5-10 cm long, 1-3 together in the axils of the leaves of young shoots, rarely subpanicled due to the late development of subtending leaves. Flowers white, fragrant; pedicel 2.5-5 mm long. Calyx 3 mm, pubescent. Corolla tubular-ventricose, often 7.5 mm long, slightly hairy above; lobes ca. 3mm long. Pods yellow, oblong, 15-30 × 2.5-5.5 cm, glabrous. Seeds 5-10, oval.	Leaf Details	Young leaves and inflorescence densely tomentose. Stipules linear, 4.2 mm, caducous; pinnae 2-4, rarely 5 pairs; rachis with a gland below the uppermost pair of pinnae and at the base; pinnae with a gland below the 2-5 upper pairs of leaflets; stipels 2, minute, above the thickened petiolule of the pinnae when young; leaflets 5-8 pairs, rarely up to 13 pairs, shortly petioluled, oblong or obovate-oblong, 1.8-5.6 × 0.8-2.5 cm, rounded or obtuse, glabrescent, drying green, mid-nerve towards the distal margin, base rounded, 4-5-nerved.

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