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Golden Shower Tree

Cassia fistula

हिन्दी: अमलतास

IUCN: Least Concern
Golden Shower Tree (Cassia fistula) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Golden Shower Tree (Cassia fistula) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Thana, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Cassia fistula
Hindi name
अमलतास
Family
Fabaceae, order Fabales
Group
Plant
Conservation status
Least Concern

The golden shower tree: chains of flowers that rain yellow.

  • Spot it Hanging yellow flower chains and long dark pods.
  • Home Dry forests, avenues and gardens.
  • Food web Bees visit the blooms; pods and leaves feed insects.
  • Why it matters Feeds bees with nectar, boosting pollination, and fallen leaves and pods build soil humus.

Read more: Cassia fistula on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 2 verified records of this species on iNaturalist, between 2011 and 2026, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  2. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  5. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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