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Cassia bakeriana Craib is a plant in the Fabaceae family, order Fabales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Plantae

Cassia bakeriana Craib

Cassia bakeriana Craib

Cassia bakeriana is an ornamental pink-flowered broadleaf evergreen tree native to Myanmar and Thailand.

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Family
Genus
Cassia
Order
Fabales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Cassia bakeriana Craib

Nomenclature

Cassia bakeriana Craib, commonly called the pink shower tree, wishing tree, and dwarf apple blossom tree, is a flowering plant species. It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the legume family Fabaceae.

Growth Form

This species is a broadleaf evergreen tree that can grow up to 30 feet, or 9.1 metres, in height.

Native Range

It is native to Myanmar and Thailand.

Cultivation and Flowers

It is most commonly cultivated as an ornamental plant, and produces showy, fragrant pink-purple flowers.

Photo: (c) Dinesh Valke, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) · cc-by-nc-nd

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Fabales Fabaceae Cassia

More from Fabaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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