水黃皮

植物簡介

It is a semi-deciduous tree up to 25 m tall, with a dense, shining, light green crown. Its spirally arranged, stalked, pinnate leaves are 15–30 cm long. Each leaf has 1–3 pairs of opposite leaflets and a terminal leaflet. The thinly leathery to leathery leaflet blades are egg-shaped, oval or oblong, pink when young, dark green when mature, and 5–23 by 2.5–15 cm. Leaves shed periodically. The plant produces bisexual flowers. Its stalked flowers are fragrant, pink or white, 1.9 cm long, and occurring in pairs along the stalks of flower clusters that are 6–27 cm long and located in the leaf-axils. Its fruit is a pale brown pod, flat but thick, oblong, 3.8–7 by 1.5–5 cm, and each with a beak at its end. Each pod usually contains 1 seed that is 3.5–5 cm long.