Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Saraca
Species: S. asoca
Common name: Ashok
Origin: India
Description: It is small evergreen tree. Leaves paripinnate, stipules intra-petioler, united, and leaflets 4-6 pairs, oblong, lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers orange to scarlet, in dense corymbose panicles; Calyx yellowish orange to scarlet, petaloid, cylindric, four lobed. Petals absent. Pods tapering at both ends.
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