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Senna spectabilis
Calceolaria Shower, Pisabed, Yellow Shower
| Family |
| Fabaceae |
| Genus |
| Senna |
| Species |
| spectabilis |
| Category |
| Tropicals |
| Type |
| Tree (deciduous) |
| Height |
| 7-15 m |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| Habitat |
| Mexico and South America |
| Bark/Stem Description |
| Bark smooth, grey with horizontal markings, many warts and short fissures, rougher with age with broad vertical bands of large lenticels (corky pores). |
| Leaf Description |
| Leaves alternate, up to 40 cm, compound (pinnate) with 4-15 (max. 19) pairs of leaflets, each up to 7.5 cm; petiole 3-4 cm; rachis 10-20 cm (max. 35); stipules paired, threadlike, linear falcate, early caducous, about 1 cm long, without glands. |
| Flower Description |
| Inflorescence large, terminal, lateral, leafy panicles, 15-30 cm (max. 90) long, which are branched and very large. Flowers many, fragrant, composed of 5 rounded hairy bracts, which are ovate, 4-5 mm long, caducous; pedicles 2-3 mm, velutinous. |
| Fruit Description |
| Fruit cylindrical or flattened pods ending in a short, narrow point, hard, not splitting open or slightly on 1 side; pendulous, more or less terete or slightly compressed, glabrous, glossy, annulate-septate, 18-25 (max. 30) x 1 cm, turning from green |
| Propagation |
| Seeds can be sown directly at the planting site, or seedlings can be used. |
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