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Roxburgh's Cassia

Cassia roxburghii

Roxburgh's Cassia (Cassia roxburghii) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

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

Scientific name
Cassia roxburghii
Family
Fabaceae, order Fabales
Group
Plant

A graceful tree with pink flower clusters.

  • Spot it Pink flower clusters and fine leaflets.
  • Home Gardens and avenues.
  • Food web Bees visit the flowers; emigrant butterfly caterpillars eat the leaves.
  • Why it matters Feeds pollinators and hosts butterflies, and its roots add nitrogen.

Read more: Cassia roxburghii on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 2 verified records of this species on iNaturalist, between 2009 and 2026, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 Not peer reviewed.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.
  4. 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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