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Cassia grandis
Also called Appleblossom Cassia, Coral Shower, Horse Cassia, Pink Shower Tree, Stinking Toe
In Singapore: Horse Cassia, Kotek, Kotek Mamak, Apple-blossom Cassia, Pink Cassia, Pink Shower Tree, Coral Shower, Horse Shower, Liquorice Tree, Carao, Stinking Toe, 大果铁刀木 (Grown in Singapore)
Cassia grandis is a fast-growing tropical tree, up to about 30 m, native to Central and northern South America and widely planted as an ornamental for its pink flower clusters. It needs a warm, frost-free climate with plenty of sun and room to grow.
Cassia grandis, one of several species called pink shower tree, and known as carao in Spanish, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the neotropics, that grows up to 30 m (98 ft). The species is distributed from southern Mexico, to Venezuela and Ecuador. It grows in forests and open fields at lower elevations, and is known to be planted as an ornamental. In at least Costa Rica, its pods are stewed into a molasses-like syrup, taken as a sweetener and for its nutritional and medicinal effects, called Jarabe (or Miel) de Carao.
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[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cassia grandis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
