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Xylia xylocarpa
Also called Ironwood Of Burma
Burma Ironwood is a large, long-lived tree from South and Southeast Asia, known for its dense red heartwood and bright yellow flowers in the flowering season. It grows best in warm, seasonally wet tropical conditions and is valued for timber and reforestation.
Xylia xylocarpa is a species of tree in the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the family Fabaceae.
This tree is found in South and Southeast Asia; it is known as Pyinkado (Burmese: ပျဉ်းကတိုး) in Myanmar, Căm xe in Vietnam, Sokram (សុក្រំ) in Cambodia, Konda-tangedu or Erra-chinnangi in Andhra and Telangana, Jamba or Jambe in Karnataka and Maharashtra, and Kangada in Odisha. It has also been planted in certain parts of East Africa.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Xylia xylocarpa 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.
