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Myanmar Name – Pan-Padauk

Common Name – Amboyna wood, Malay padauk, Papua New Guinea rosewood, Philippine mahogany, Andaman redwood, Burmese rosewood

Botanical Name – Pterocarpus indicus Willd.

Family Name – Fabaceae

Habitat – native to tropical and temperate Asia and to parts of the Pacific region.

Habit – It is a large deciduous tree growing to 30–40 m tall, with a trunk up to 2 m diameter. 

Bark – The bark is grey-brown and fissured, becoming flaking with age.

Leaves – The Leaves are 12–22 cm long, pinnate, with 5–11 leaflets, the girth is 12–34 m wide. Leaves are large and feathery, comprised of up to eleven glossy green ovate leaflets arranged alternately along the length and with an extra leaflet at the tip. 

Inflorescence – Inflorescence a raceme or panicle, mostly axillary, rarely terminal, 10-18 cm, puberulent.

Flower – orange-yellow flowers in clusters that bloom from the start to end of the dry season, coinciding with the seasonal replacement of the old leaves with the new.

Fruit – Fruit pod is disc-like (3 – 5 cm diameter), with a central seed-bearing portion and a flattened wing surrounding the central part. Each pod contains about 1 – 2 seeds within. Young fruit pods are green with golden hairs and gradually becoming pale brown and smooth as they ripen. Fruits develop in about 4–5 months. 

Seed – 6-8 mm long, bean-shaped with brown papery testa. from an inflorescence develop into fruits. Most trees flower and fruit every year but there are always some trees in a population with no or very limited flowering. Fruit development takes 3-4 months.

Flowering and Fruiting Time – flowering begins in January and peaks around April and May.

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