Parkia

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Parkia
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture


Parkia (named after Mungo Park, born in 1771). Leguminosae. Tall unarmed trees: leaves evenly bipin- nate; leaflets very numerous, small: flowers in dense, long- peduncled, obovoid heads; calyx tubular, shortly 5-cleft; corolla tubular, somewhat cleft; stamens 10; ovary stalked: pod large, flat, strap-shaped, coriaceous.—About 10 species, tropics of both hemispheres. P. timoriana, Merr. Cupang. A very large tree, up to 115 ft. high; with vase-shaped, wide-spreading crown: leaves fernlike, with very small leaflets: flowers small, white and yellow, in dense pear-shaped panicles: pods pendulous, flattened, black. 18 in. long. Timor and Philippines. Intro, in U. S. by USDA and offered for distribution. CH


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