Major Flowering Trees of Tropical Gardens

M. S. Swaminathan, S. L. Kochhar

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781108481953
• eBook ISBN: 9781108640633
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Botany
• Index: Biological Sciences

This comprehensive text on flowering trees of tropical gardens discusses some new species of trees, including Adansonia digitata, Monodora myristica, Flacourtia montana, Balanites aegyptiaca, Bursera serrata, Commiphora wightii and Semecarpus anacardium. The text covers more than 200 of the most striking and widespread trees alongside closely related genera and species (both native and exotic) commonly encountered in the tropical climate. It includes more than 700 high resolution coloured photographs, depicting different facets including growth habit, morphological details of stem, leaves, flowers and fruits. The different tree species are organized according to Bentham and Hooker's system of classification of seed plants. The book discusses many aspects of trees including common and botanical names together with synonyms, taxonomic families, etymology (how trees have derived their names), phenology, their native place, geographical distribution, mythological notes, religious significance and economic importance. The text is useful for graduate students and academic researchers in the field of life sciences.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface to Third Edition
• Preface to Second Edition
• Preface to First Edition
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Magnolia, Laurel Magnolia, Southern Magnolia, Bull Bay, Lily Tree
• Golden Champa, Yellow Champa, Orange Champak, Fragrant Champak, Golden Champa
• Sugar Apple, True Custard Apple, Sweet Sop
• Climbing Ylang-Ylang, Tail Grape, Hari Champa
• Indian Fir, Mast Tree, Cemetery Tree
• Cham-Khirni
• Calabash Nutmeg, Jamaican Nutmeg, African Nutmeg
• Elephant Apple, Indian Dillenia, Chalta
• Annatto Tree, Lipstick Tree or Urucu, Arnotto Tree
• Yellow Silk Cotton Tree, Torchwood Tree, Buttercup Tree
• The Sacred Barna, Garlic Pear, Caper Tree, Bengal Quince
• Mountain Sweet Thorn
• Sal Tree, Sakhua, Shala Tree
• Changeable Rose, Changeable Hibiscus, Cotton Rose, Chinese Rose, Confederate Rose
• Coast Cotton Tree, Yellow Mallow Tree, Corkwood, Lime Tree-leaved Hibiscus, Mahoe, Sea Hibiscus
• Pula, Roxburgh’s Kydia
• Portia Tree, Indian Tulip Tree, Umbrella Tree, Bhendi Tree or Paras Pipal
• Phalsa
• Jamaica Cherry, Singapore Cherry, West Indian Cherry, Capulin, Calabur Tree, Panama Cherry, Strawberry Cherry
• Lignum-Vitae, Tree of Life, Gum Guaiacum, Poke Wood Tree
• Alexandrian Laurel, Balltree, Beauty Leaf, Borneo-Mahogany, Mast Wood, Indian Laurel, Tamanu, Delo Oil Tree, Oil-nut-tree, Beach Touriga
• Iron-wood Tree, Ceylon Ironwood, Indian Rose Chestnut
• Baobab, Monkey-Bread Tree, Upside-Down Tree, African Calabash Tree
• Red Silk Cotton Tree, Red Kapok
• True Kapok, White Silk Cotton Tree, Silk Cotton Tree
• Mexican Silk Cotton Tree, Floss-Silk Tree
• Utrasum Bead Tree, Rudraksh Tree, Blue Quandong, Blue Fig, Silver Quandong
• Devil’s Cotton
• Bastard Cedar, Honey-Fruit Tree, Musket Tree, Pigeon-Wood, West Indian Elm
• East Indian Screw Tree or Nut-leaved Screw Tree
• Tree Antigonan, Guest Tree, Timanga Tree
• Bonfire Tree, The Coloured Sterculia
• Maple Twist, Muchkunda, Kanak Champa, Dinnerplate Tree
• Buddha’s Coconut, Narikel
• Wild Almond, Poon Tree, Foetid Sterculia, Hill Coconut, Dung Tree
• Indian Tragacanth, Gum Karaya, Indian Gum Tragacanth, Kateera Gum
• Hairy Sterculia, Elephant Rope Tree, Woolly Ordure Tree
• Bael Tree, Golden Apple, Bilpatre or Vilva, Bengal Quince
• Wood-Apple, Elephant-Apple
• Orange Jasmine, Chinese Box, Satin Wood, Sumatra Box
• Indian Frankincense Tree, Indian Olibanum or Salai Guggul, Frankincense Tree
• Garuga, Grey Downy Balsam
• Tree of Heaven, Maharuk, Mahanimb, Ullu
• Desert Date, Egyptian Myrobalan, Soapberry Tree, Egyptian Balsam, Thorn Tree, Heglig Berries
• Bitterwood, Surinam Bitterwood, Amargo, Bitter-ash
• Bird’s Eye Bush, Golden Champak
• Neem Tree or Margosa Tree
• Chinaberry Tree, Bead Tree, Persian Lilac, Pride of India, Indian Lilac Tree, White Cedar, Umbrella Tree, Bastard Cedar
• Big Leaf Mahogany, Bastard Mahogany, Honduras Mahogany, West Indian Mahogany, Sky Fruit
• Toon, Indian Mahogany, Moulmein Cedar, Red Cedar, Cedrela Tree
• Carambola, Star Fruit, Karambola Apple, Chinese Gooseberry, Coromandel Gooseberry, or Kamrakh
• Indian Jujube, Ber, Chinese Date, Chinese Fig
• Fern Tree, Fern-leaf Tree, Japanese Fern Tree, Pihimbiya, Thika Palm, Soapberry
• Golden Rain Tree, Pride of India, China Tree or Varnish-Tree
• Soap-nut Tree of North India, Chinese Soapberry, Ritha
• Lac Tree, Ceylon Oak, Macassar Oil Tree, Kusum
• Almondette, Cuddapah Almond, Hamilton Mombin, Chironji Tree, Charoli Nut
• Indian Ash Tree, Wodier Wood, Moya, Jhingam
• Marking Nut Tree, Oriental Cashew Nut, Malacca Bean, Marany Nut, Dhobi Nut Tree, Varnish Tree
• Hog-plum, Wild Mango, Bile Tree, Traveller’s Delight
• Drumstick Tree, Horse-radish Tree, Ben Tree, Sohanjna
• Loquat, Japanese Medlar
• Queensland Umbrella Tree, Octopus Tree, Australian Ivy Palm
• Australian Wattle, Australian Phyllode Acacia, Golden Shower
• Black Catechu, Black Cutch, Cutch, Khair
• Popinac, Opopanax, Cassie, West Indian Black Thorn, Huisache, Sweet Acacia, Sponge Tree, Scented Babool
• Babul Acacia, Kikar, Black Babool, Indian Gum-Arabic Tree
• Red Bead Tree, Red Sandalwood, Red Wood, Peacock Tree, Coralwood Tree, Coral Pea
• Black Siris, Siris, East Indian Walnut, Kokko, Frywood Tree, Parrot Tree, Women’s Tongue, Sizzling Tree
• Pride of Burma, Queen of Flowering Trees, Tree of Heaven, Splendid Amherstia, Flame Amherstia
• Bauhinia species
• Jamaican Ebony, West Indian Ebony, Green Ebony, Granadilla, Cocus wood., Jamaican Rain Tree
• Flame of the Forest, Parrot Tree, Bastard Teak, Dhak, Palas, Kesu
• Calliandra spp
• Blood-Red Tassel Flower, Powder-Puff Tree
• Indian Laburnum, Golden Shower, Golden Rain, Pudding Pipe Tree, Purging Cassia, Amaltas, Konnai
• Moreton-Bay Chestnut, Queensland Black Bean
• Butterfly Pea Tree
• The Colville’s Glory
• Sissoo or North Indian Rosewood
• Flamboyant Poinciana, Gulmohar, Royal Poinciana, Flame Tree, Flame of the Forest, Peacock Tree
• Sickle Bush, Bell Mimosa, Chinese Lantern Tree, Kalahari Christmas Tree, Marabou Thorn
• Indian Coral Tree, Bastard Teak, Mochi Wood
• Spotted Gliricidia, Mother of Cocoa, Madre de Cacao, Quickstic, Nicaraguan Shade Tree, Mexican Lilac
• Horse Tamarind, White Popinac, Sea Blue, Lead Tree, White Babool, Subabul
• Moulmein Rosewood, Jewels on a String
• African Locust Tree, Badminton Ball Tree, Gong-Stick Tree, Nitta Tree
• Jerusalem Thorn, Horse Bean Tree, Barbados Flower Fence, Retma
• Rusty Shield-Bearer, Copper Pod, Braziletto Wood, Yellow Gul-mohur, Yellow Flame Tree
• Manila Tamarind, Madras Thorn, Quamachil
• Pongam Oil Tree, Indian Beech, Karanja, Indian Elm, Hongay Oil Tree
• Khejri Tree, Shami, Ghaf, Banni Tree
• Algaroba Bean, Mesquite, Mexican Thorn
• Andaman Padauk, Andaman Redwood, Burmese Rosewood, East Indian Mahogany
• Indian Kino Tree, Malabar Kino, Bastard Teak
• Australian Wattle, Rain Tree, Cow Tamarind, Monkey Pod, Zamang
• Ashoka Tree, Sorrow-Less Tree, Sita Ashok
• Agati Sesbania, Swamp Pea, Vegetable Hummingbird, Hummingbird Tree
• Tamarind or Tamarindo or Imli
• Lampati, Duabanga, Beremban Bukit, Pedada Bukit, Pedada Darat
• Queen’s Flower, Pride of India, Queen’s Crepe Myrtle, Giant Crepe Myrtle, Jarul
• Henna, Camphire, Mignonette Tree, Egyptian Privet
• Fire-flame Bush, Red Bell Bush, Shiranjitea
• Bottle Brush, Scarlet Bottle Brush
• Eucalypts
• Java Plum, Black Plum, Jambolana, Indian Blackberry, Indian Allspice, Jambhool, Jamun, Jaman, Jamoon
• Arjun, White Murdah
• Belleric Myrabolan, Bastard Myrabolan, Bahera
• Indian Almond Tree, Tropical Almond, West Indian Almond, Sea Almond, Malabar Almond, Deshi Badam
• Black Myrabolan, Chebulic Myrabolan, Harad, Haritaki
• Poison Fish Tree, Small Indian Oak, Indian Oak, Itchy Tree, Stream Barringtonia, Freshwater Mangrove
• Wild Guava, Slow Match Tree, Ceylon Oak, Patana Oak
• Cannonball Tree, Nagalingam, Shivalingam, Tope Gola
• Majestic Heaven Lotus, Stinkwood, Gustavia, Membriollo
• Sage Leaved Alangium
• Cape Jasmine, Gardenia, Gandharaja
• Haldu, Yellow Teak
• Scarlet Ixora, Jungle Flame Ixora, Flame of the Woods or Flame Tree of the Woods
• Kaim or Phaldu
• Flag Bush, Bangkok Rose
• Kadam, Kadamb Tree
• Mahua, Mohwa, Butter Tree
• Khirni
• Indian Medlar, Asian Bulletwood, Bakul or Maulsari, Spanish Cherry
• River Ebony, Gaub Persimmon or Indian Persimmon
• Tree Rhododendron, Rose Tree
• Thorny Jacquinia
• Sebesten, Indian Cherry, Clammy Cherry
• Scarlet Cordia, Orange Geiger Tree, Aloe Wood, Sebesten Plum
• Heliotrope Tree
• Potato Tree, Large-Flowered Nightshade, Brazilian Potato Tree, Giant Star Potato Tree
• Zither-wood, Fiddlewood Tree
• White Teak, Candahar Tree, Coomb Teak, Snapdragon Tree, Khamara, Gawhar, Gamhar, Gumhar, Kashmir Tree
• Moulmein Teak, Rangoon or Burma Teak
• Chinese Chaste Tree, Horseshoe Vitex
• Coral Jasmine, Night Jasmine, Tree of Sorrow or Sadness, the Queen of the Night, Harshingar, Paarijatta
• Toothbrush Tree, Mustard Tree or Mustard Bush, Salt Bush Tree, Meswak, Peelu
• Wintergreen, African Wintersweet, Dune Poison Bush, Bushman’s Poison
• Devil-Tree, Hard Alstonia, Batino
• Scholar Tree, Devil’s Tree, Satwin, Shaitan Wood, Chattin, Dita Bark Tree
• Christ’s Thorn, Bengal Currant, Carandas Plum, Karanda
• Yellow Oleander, Bastard Oleander, Lucky Bean, Be-still Tree
• Easter Tree, Ivory Tree, Conessi Bark, Conessia Holarrhena
• Crimson Temple Tree, Red Frangipani, Pagoda Tree, Red Jasmine Tree
• Pala Indigo, Sweet Indarjau
• Giant Milkweed, Madar, Crown Plant, Swallow-Wort, Tembaga
• Empress Tree, Royal Paulownia, Princess Tree, Hairy Paulownia, Foxglove Tree
• Calabash Tree, Beggar’s Bowl Tree, Gourd Tree
• Trumpet Tree
• Mimosa-Leaved Jacaranda or Nili Gul Mohur, Jamuni Badal
• African Sausage Tree, Cucumber Tree, Fetish Tree, Jhar Phanoos
• Tree of Damocles, Indian Trumpet Flower, Midnight Horror, Midday Marvel, Broken Bones, Ullu
• Candle Tree, Candle Stick Tree, Panama Candle Tree, Arbol de vela
• African Tulip Tree, Scarlet-Bell Tree, Fountain Tree, Squirt Tree, Syringe Tree, African Torch or Flame Tree
• Yellow Elder, Yellow Bells, Trumpet Flower Tree, Yellow Bignonia, Yellow Trumpet Tree
• Cape Honey-suckle
• Wavy-Leaved Tecoma, Lahura, Roheda, Honey Tree, Desert Teak
• Camphor Tree, Mushkapur, Camphor Laurel
• Sandalwood Tree
• Australian Silk-Oak, Silky Oak, Silver Oak or Golden Pine
• Bishop Wood Tree, Java Cedar, Tiger Tree, Toog Tree, West Indian Cedar, Vinegar Wood
• Emblic Myrobalan, Indian Gooseberry, Malacca Tree, Amla or Aonla
• Fiddle-leaved Jatropha, Peregrina, Spicy Jatropha
• Kannada (or Kenda or Kanda in Sri Lanka; Chandada in India)
• Kamala Dye Tree, Red Kamala, Kumkum Tree, Monkey Face Tree, Dyer’s Tree
• Putranjiva, Child-life Tree, Indian Amulet Tree, Lucky Bean Tree, Wild Olive
• False White Teak, Gutel, Khamara
• Chinese Vegetable Tallow, Chinese Tallow Tree, Florida Aspen, Chicken Tree, Candleberry Tree, Popcorn Tree
• Jack Fruit
• Lakoocha, Monkey Jack, Lakuch, Dahua or Dheu, Barhal, Deophal
• Banyan Tree, Bargad
• Assam Rubber Tree, India Rubber Tree, Indian Caoutchouc Tree
• Ivy-like Fig or Creeping Fig or Climbing Fig
• Cluster Fig, Wild Fig or Gular
• Pipal or Peepul Tree, Bodhi or Bo Tree, Sacred Fig
• Some other common Ficus species
• White Mulberry or Toot
• Siamese Rough–Bush, Tooth Brush Tree
• Oriental Plane Tree, Eastern Plane Tree, Chinar
• Horsetail Tree, She-Oak, Whistling or Australian Pine, Beefwood, or Indian Christmas Tree
• Indian Elm, Jungle Cork Tree
• Indian Charcoal Tree, Indian Nettle Tree, Gunpowder Tree, Pigeon Wood Tree, Poison Peach, African Elm, Woolly Cedar, Hop Out
• Traveller’s Tree or Traveller’s Palm
• Screw Pine, Keora, Padang
• Palmyra Palm, Fan Palm, Tal Palm, Tar
• Fish-Tail Palm, Toddy Palm, Indian Sago Palm, Kitul Palm, Wine Palm
• Coconut
• Date Palm
• Cuban Royal Palm, Mountain Glory or Bottle Palm
• Petticoat Palm, California Fan Palm
• Appendix I – Glossary of Botanical Terms
• Appendix II – Glossary of Some Medical Terms
• Appendix III – Morphological Architecture of Leaf Forms
• References
• Index of Scientific Names