Samanea

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Samanea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Samanea (a corruption of its native Spanish name of zaman). Leguminosae. Spineless or rarely spiny trees or shrubs of the American tropics, where one or two of them are much planted for shade. Leaves several- or rarely many-pinnate; lfts. 1- to many-pinnate: fls. in globose heads: pods straight or somewhat curved, rigid, more or less constricted, flat, thickened or subterete, leathery or fleshy, indehiscent or rarely but slightly so; septate between the seeds. Distinguished from Enterolobium by the nearly straight pods and from Pithecolobium by its indehiscent septate pods.—About 30 species. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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