Delonix regia

Frontal, lateral and backside view of a flower
  Gulmahor tree (Delonix regia) with flowers, Haridwar, India.
  Flower, leaves & pods (Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
  Delonix regia var. flavida is a rarer, yellow-flowered variety.
  Close-up of part of a leaf
The flowers of Delonix regia are large, with four spreading scarlet or orange-red petals up to 8 cm long, and a fifth upright petal called the standard, which is slightly larger and spotted with yellow and white. They appear in corymbs along and at the ends of branches. The naturally occurring variety flavida (Bengali: Radhachura) has yellow flowers. The pods are green and flaccid when young and turn dark-brown and woody. They can be up to 60 cm long and 5 cm wide. The seeds are small, weighing around 0.4 g on average. The compound (doubly pinnate) leaves have a feathery appearance and are a characteristic light, bright green. Each leaf is 30–50 cm long with 20 to 40 pairs of primary leaflets or pinnae, each divided into 10–20 pairs of secondary leaflets or pinnules. Pollen grains are elongated, approximately 52 microns in size.   Pollen grains of Delonix regia

Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.

Delonix Regia

Delonix regia

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