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Family: Caesalpiniaceae	Genus: Bauhinia	Species: Bauhinia purpurea Linn.( कचनारी )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Phanera purpurea (Linn.) Benth.	Flower Color	Blue - Purple
Common Name	Kachnar, Kobidar	Flower Type	Panicle
English / Trade Name	Purple orchid tree	Flowering Period	Oct-Dec
Vernacular /Local Name	Kachnari	Fruiting Period	Jan-March
Altitude	500 to 2000 m.	Fruit Type	Pod
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruit Details Pods linear, flat, pointed, greenish – tinged with purple; seeds 12 – 15.
Habitat	Evergreen lowland rain forest mountain forest and savanna, scrub and dry deciduous forest or swamp forest on various soils	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Throughout India, Widely cultivated as ornamental trees, China probably only native from Nepal through continental monsoon Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thai- land, Vietnam	Bark Details	The bark is pale grey brown, fairly smooth or slightly fissured and scaly
Distribution in Haryana	Ambala, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Kurukshetra, Morni-Pinjore, Rewari, Yamuna Nagar	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Bi-lobed
Description of Species	Trees, with glabrescent branchlets, up to 8 m high; bark brownish – ashy. Leaves ovate – orbicular, almost equal in length and breadth, cleft nearly to the middle, lobes subacute, 7 – 9 nerved at base; petioles 2 – 4.2 cm long. Flowers few, red or purple, on terminal or axillary, short peduncled corymbs. Clayx pubescent, 3 – 3.5 cm long, slit into 2 – valves, ultimately 5 – toothed. Fertile stamens 3 – 4, elongate. Ovary glabrescent. Pods linear, flat, 15 – 18 × 3 – 3.5 cm, pointed, greenish – tinged with purple; seeds 12 – 15.	Leaf Details	Leaves simple, alternate, base round to shallow-cordate, upto12 cm × 12 cm, deeply 2-lobed at apex upto 1/3-1/2, ca. 7-12 cm long

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