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Saraca L. is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae (legume family) of about 20 plant species of trees native to the lands from India and Sri Lanka to Indochina, southern China Malesia, and New Guinea.
This plant can be grown outdoors in distinctly warm humid climates, and prefer a moist, well-drained soil with plenty of organic matter. It can also be grown within greenhouses. The trees themselves are grown for their clustered, upturned flowers in yellow, orange or red. The tree's flowers lack petals, having brightly colored sepals, and have stamens projecting up to eight inches long. The leaves are pinnate, with paired leaflets. Typically, these trees are accustomed to the shade of other trees. Most species of Saraca are associated with particular bodies of water. The species Saraca asoca is believed to be the tree under which Buddha was born.
Ashoka tree · Saraca celebica · Red saraca · Common Saraca / Asoka · Saraca griffithiana · Asoka Tree · Saraca thailandica · Yellow Saraca
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Saraca by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
