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Bicentennial Trail, Ashland City, Cheatham County, Tennessee, US
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Gamboa, Colon, Panama
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Pretoriuskop, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Christmas Island
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Native to central Chile where the genus is known as Quebrachos.
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Family: CaesalpinaceaeLocal name: Senna; Sunamukhi (Telugu)Distribution: Found in India. Photographed at Eastren ghats of Nellore district. The dried leaves and pods are used as laxative. Because of over exploitation it is rarely found in wild. 30-50cm long herbs. Leaves unipinnately compound. Flowers in axilary racemes. Pod a compressed legume. Reference: Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS, Flora of Nellore district By B.Suryanarayana &A.S Rao
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Cayenne, French Guiana
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Camaragibe, Pernambuco, Brazil
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The colorful pods of a species found in the Andes foothills, central and southern Chile.
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Also known as the Kassod Tree, and as Mjohoro here in Tanzania. The boiled leaves are edible, and it is planted as fodder and for medicinal applications. Native to southeast Asia.
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Family: CaesalpinaceaeDistribution: Native of tropical America, and naturalised in tropics. Photographed at Nellore on a tank bund.1-2m tall undershrub, branches hirsute, Leaves pinnate, 12-20cm long, leaflets 4-6pairs, ovate oblong, base obtuse, apex acute, densly appressed-hirsute. Flowers 1cm across, yellow, in axillary pairs. Pods 6-10cm long, densly villous, subterete, 3-5mm wide. The leaf paste along with lime and egg yoke is applied to fix fractured bones for cattle and also for humans in villages.Reference: Flora presidency of Madras by Gamble.
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Family: CaesalpinaceaeCommon in dry stony hills. Limited to India. Photographed at Velugonda hills of Eastren ghats.1-2.5mts tall handsome herbs. leaves 8-20cm long pinnate, leaflets 10-13 pairs, leaflet1.6-2.5x 1-1.2cm, elliptic, oblong -obovate, base obtuse, mucronate, glaucous below, Flowers 1-1.5cm across, golden yellow, in 6-12cm long corymbose racemes. Stamens 10(2+4+4) pods compressed, beaked, black shining 10-20 seeded.Bark and leaves are used to relieve fever and headache.Reference: Flora of Nellore district by B.Suryanarayana & A.S.Rao.Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS.
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Found in the western parts of the Amazon Basin, and used in indigenous medicine for headaches and earaches. Photo from the Calanoa Reserve, Colombian Amazon.
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Transpantaneira, Pocon, Mato Grosso, BRAZIL
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Bicentennial Trail, Ashland City, Cheatham County, Tennessee, US
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Senna petersiana flower. The pods are sweet and are used to distill traditional liquor in Mozambique.