Amaltas Tree (Cassia fistula): Where It Grows in India and How to Grow It
Cassia fistula
Amaltas, the golden shower tree, grows wild in deciduous forests across India, flowers through the hottest weeks of the north Indian summer, copes with drought once established and is not browsed by goats. Learn where it grows, when to plant it in each region, how to protect young plants from frost, its traditional uses, and why children should not chew the pods or seeds.
Varieties
No named variety, clone or selection of amaltas was found in the ICFRE and IFGTB tree-improvement pages we checked. Kew's plant list (WCVP) lists no accepted amaltas variety; its one variety name, var. ovata, is treated as the same species. This covers only the sources we checked, so a local selection could still exist.
Sources: GBIF species search in the Kew World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) dataset: Cassia fistula (var. ovata is a synonym of Cassia fistula) – GBIF / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (WCVP); ICFRE Technologies (list of technologies developed by ICFRE institutes) – Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE); Genetics & Tree Improvement: Achievements (varietal development and released clones) – ICFRE-Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB), Coimbatore
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