NCCWDB

Senna tora / Cassia tora / 决明

  • Introduction
    Senna tora is mostly born on the edge of villages, roadsides and hillsides, etc., prefers warm and humid climates, and sufficient sunlight is conducive to its growth, and grows best in the high temperature and rainy season, and is not cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant, and frost-tolerant. It is not very demanding on the soil, 1-2 meters high. Leaves 4-8 cm long, no glands on petioles, 1 rod-shaped gland between each pair of leaflets on leaf axis, 3 pairs of leaflets, membranous, obovate or obovate-oblong-elliptic, pods slender, nearly quadrangular, acutely pointed at both ends, up to 15 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, membranous, seeds about 25, diamond-shaped, shiny. The flowering and fruiting period is from August to November.
  • Common name: / Cassia tora / 决明
  • Taxonomy: Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; fabids; Fabales; Fabaceae; Caesalpinioideae; Cassia clade; Senna

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