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Red cassia is a fairly large "shower" tree with featherlike pinnately compound leaves and twigs covered with a dense carpet of fine, soft hairs. The leaves are about 1 ft (0.3 m) long and each has 15-20 pairs of oblong 2 in (5.1 cm) leaflets. Red cassia produces clusters of pink, rose or orange flowers in axillary and terminal, often branched, racemes. The flower petals are about 0.5 in (1.3 cm) long and the conspicuous yellow stamens are characteristically swollen at their middles. The fruit is a typical legume: it is cylindrical and indehiscent (does not split open by itself), 8-12 in (20.3-30.5 cm) long, less than 1 in (2.5 cm) in diameter, and bears many seeds separated by papery partitions.
Red cassia is native to Sri Lanka and southern India. It is uncommon in cultivation, especially in the West. But Jack was smitten by this showy individual in full bloom at Miami's Fairchild Garden and insisted that we add it to Floridata.
Culture
Use red cassia like the other "shower" trees as a specimen for its fine-textured foliage and clusters of showy flowers.
Features Steve Christman 12/6/00; updated 4/28/04
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