Tipuana

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Lifespan: perennial
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Read about Tipuana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Tipuana (name apparently Latinized from a Brazilian name). Leguminosae. Showy unarmed trees, used ornamentally in the extreme southern U. S. Lvs. unevenly pinnately compound, without stipels; lfts. several, alternate; stipules minute, caducous: fls. showy, yellow or pale purplish, in loosely branched terminal panicles; calyx turbinate, teeth short and broad; standard ovate or suborbicular, not appendaged; wings obliquely obovate or oblong; keel-petals obliquely oblong, obtuse, lightly connate; stamens all connate in a sheath which is split above: pod stipitate, indehiscent, 1-3-seeded, samara-like. — About 4 species, S. Amer. Here belongs the plant recently intro. to S. Calif. as Machaerium Tipu, which is said to yield one of the rosewoods of S. Brazil. CH


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