Thursday, July 5, 2012

Golden Shower Tree - Pokok Bereksa (Cassia fistula)


Yellow Flame flowers and leaves.
Golden Shower Tree - Pokok Bereksa (Cassia fistula)
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Cassia
Common name: Bereksa, Kayu Raja, Yellow Flame.

Close-up image of Yellow Flame flowers.
Golden Shower trees are medium sized trees which can be found in Southern Asia. It can grows until 20m tall. With its attractive yellow flowers, its often been planted as landscape trees in Malaysia. This flower was declared as national flower of Thailand. In Thailand, Yellow Flame is called dok khuen or Rachapruek locally.

Yellow Flame tree.