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Family: Caesalpiniaceae	Genus: Parkinsonia	Species: Parkinsonia aculeata Linn.( राम बबूल )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Parkinsonia thornberi M.E.Jones	Flower Color	Yellow - Orange
Common Name	Ram Babul	Flower Type	Raceme
English / Trade Name	Jellybean Tree,Jerusalem Thorn,Mexican Palo Verde,Parkinsonia	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Vilayti Kikar, Ram Babul	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Upto 1300 m	Fruit Type	Pod
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Pod linear, contracted between the seeds, c. 7.5-10.0 cm long, c. 6-10 mm broad, glabrous, 1-6 seeded. Seed oblong, smooth, mottled.
Habitat	Arid, semi-arid tropical and subtropical with a great temperature range from very hot to several degrees below freezing with frosts.	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	It is a native of tropical America, widely introduced in tropics.	Bark Details	Bark of trunk, branches and twigs smooth, yellow-green or blue-green and slightly bitter
Distribution in Haryana	Bhiwani, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, M. Garh, Mewat, Palwal, Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Bi-pinnate
Description of Species	Shrub or a small tree, up to 4 m high, armed, glabrous. Leaf bipinnate; rachis short and ending into a spines, often with a pair of stipular spines at its base, pinnae 2-6, c. 15-35 cm long, often with much. flattened rachis, leaflets 25-30 pairs, c. 4-5 mm long, obovate-oblong, petiolule 1-2 mm. Inflorescence axillary racemes, racemes shorter than the leaf. Flower pedicellate, pedicel c. 7-15 mm. Calyx c. 7-8 mm long, segments distinct almost to the base, oblong, obtuse. Petals 5, yellow, 15-18 mm long, with a short claw. Stamens 10, free, flattened, villous at the base. Ovary silky hairy, ovules numerous. Pod linear, contracted between the seeds, c. 7.5-10.0 cm long, c. 6-10 mm broad, glabrous, 1-6 seeded. Seed oblong, smooth, mottled.	Leaf Details	Leaf bipinnate; rachis short and ending into a spines, often with a pair of stipular spines at its base, pinnae 2-6, c. 15-35 cm long, often with much. flattened rachis, leaflets 25-30 pairs, c. 4-5 mm long, obovate-oblong, petiolule 1-2 mm. Inflorescence axillary racemes, racemes shorter than the leaf.

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