Fabaceae » Bauhinia racemosa


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commonly known as: sona-tree • Hindi: कठमूली katmauli • Kannada: ಅಪ್ತಾ aapta, ಅರಳುಕದುಮನ್ದರ aralukadumandara • Konkani: आप्टो apto • Malayalam: അരംപാലി arampaali, കുടബുളി kutabuli, മലയത്തി malayaththi • Marathi: अपटा apta, सोना sona • Sanskrit: यमलपत्रक yamalapatrakah, युग्मपत्र yugmapatra • Tamil: ஆத்தி atti, தாதகி tataki • Telugu: తెల్ల ఆరెచెట్టు tella arecettu

Photographed in Thane, Maharashtra.

Ah... at last! I had been eagerly searching for this one!
Great!
PS: Strangely, IndFlora puts B. racemosa as a synonym of B. vahlii
http://www.ncbi.org.in/biota/flora/Top/combine.jsp?op1=contains&t1=Bauhinia%20racemosa&epi=Complete&scidnext=0&totalsci=0&cnt=0
Probably a glaring error!  

--Last edited by tabish on 2008-04-21 18:06:21 --

It must be an error.
B. vahili, is climber; and among the popular Bauhinias, it could be the only one.

Dinesh, your flower is on the site now.

Thank you very much, Tabish.