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Golden Shower Tree
Cassia fistula
Cassia fistula, known as the golden rain tree, canafistula and by other names, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. The species is native to the Indian subcontinent and adjacent regions of Southeast Asia. It ranges from southern Pakistan eastward throughout India to Myanmar and Thailand and south to Sri Lanka. It is the state flower of Kerala in India and of immense importance amongst the Malayali population. It is a popular ornamental plant and...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Garden of Health
1507 · p.80
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.119
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.142
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.238
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.765
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.796
The Plants of Egypt
Prospero Alpini · 1592 · p.17
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.130
Garden of Malabar, Vol. 1
Hendrik van Rheede · 1683 · p.77
The Ambonese Herbal, Vol. 2 (Herbarium Amboinense)
Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1741 · p.109
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Cassia fistula in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68679.