Evergreen tree ; up to 20 m tall , with rounded spreading crown and rough greyish fissured bark . Stems and branches tomentose at first becoming glabrous . Leaves alternate , bright green , paripinnate with 8-20 paired leaflets , narrowly oblong , 6-10(-16) cm long ; leaflets 8-15 x 4-5 mm , oblong , apex rounded or retuse , mucronate , base unequal , margin entire , glabrous . Inflorescences in terminal racemes , up to 15 cm long . Flowers large , cream with red vines ; sepals 4 , pale yellow , acute , reflexed ; petals 5 , the upper 3 petals larger , 8-13 x 4-6 mm , oblong-ovate , pale yellow or white with orange-red veins , the lower two minute ; stamens 3 , filaments united to about half their length , alternating with 5 small staminodes , anthers c . 2 . 5 mm . Fruit pods , 2-16 cm long , large , with a mealy surface , oblong , somewhat irregularly constricted between the seeds , greenish-brown , stout , pulpy , indehiscent , 2-10-seeded . Seeds 10-15 mm , embedded in chestnut-brown pulp , sour to taste , rhomboid , flattened ,
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Least Concern - Global Assessment
Frequent
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Cavaraea elegans Speg.
Tamarindus occidentalis Gaertn.
Tamarindus officinalis Hook.
Tamarindus umbrosa Salisb.
This tree is propagated by seeds. Steps to follow: • Pre-treat with water (room temperature/hot), soaking seeds for 24 hours to get a good result. • Sow collected seeds in seed tray filled with a ratio of 3 peat moss: 1 compost, 5 cm apart. • Irrigate the seed tray three times a week. • Germination commences from 6–10 days. Seed germination of this species is high and average germination is around 72%.
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Tamarind
Indian Date
Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "This tall and gracefull tree was one of a small group of trees which were dug up as saplings or seedlings, transplanted and surrounded with a protective thorny fence until it had established itself. However, it was said locally that care had to be exercised in choosing a site for planting the sapling, as if it could 'see' either the high mountain tops or down to the sea once it had grown and matured, the person who had planted it would sicken and die. Be that as it may, it is certainly true that it is not found in either the coastal plains or the high plateaux, but in the deeper valleys or hollows where the soil is better and the water table not too distant. The fruits, which are high in vitamin C, and contain tartaric, malic and citric acid as well as
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