Dalbergia reniformis is a small, wetland-dependent legume tree from the Haor wetlands of Bangladesh, northeast India and Myanmar, able to survive months under water. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are mostly general.
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Tolerates prolonged flooding in its native habitat; keep soil consistently moist to wet.
Soil
Moist, fertile, waterlogged or seasonally flooded soils.
Temperature
Warm tropical conditions; frost-intolerant, protect below about 10 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Assam to Myanmar
Climate
seasonally dry tropical
About
Dalbergia reniformis is a wetland-dependent tree native to Bangladesh, India and Myanmar. It is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae.
In Bangladesh, it is found Haor wetland of the Sylhet Division. It is locally known as Karoch in Sunamganj, Sylhet area of Bangladesh. It is a small tree. The branches brown-silky and the leaves are compound, imparipinnate, alternate; leaflets 7-11, ca. 15-27 x 4-5 cm long, ovate, rounded at base, acute at apex, coriaceous, glabrescent. The flowers in axillary panicles, dense, silky; calyx ca. 30 cm long, white, standard obovate; stamens in two bundles. The fruit is Pod, ca. 2.5-3 x 0.6 - 0.7 cm, glabrous, fleshy when ripe, joints reniform.
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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.