Golden shower
ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಗಿಡअमलतासசரக்கொன்னை
Cassia fistula L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Golden Shower Tree, Golden Shower, Golden Rain, Indian Laburnum, Purging Cassia
Formerly Bactyrilobium fistula, Cassia bonplandiana, Cassia fistuloides, Cassia rhombifolia, and 4 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. & S. India, Sri LankaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: height, spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Indonesian
- Trengguli
- Spanish
- Lluvia de oro asiática, Caña Fístula, Cañafístola
- Chinese
- 豬腸豆, 臘腸樹, 阿勃勒
- French
- Cassier, Casse, Canéficier
- Portuguese
- Cássia-imperial
- German
- Röhren-Kassie
- Chinese (China)
- 腊肠树
- Czech
- kasie obecná
- Arabic
- خيار شنبر, خروب هندي, شجرة المطر الذهبي
- Japanese
- ゴールデンシャワー, ナンバンサイカチ
- Russian
- Кассия трубчатая
- Sinhala
- ඇහැළ
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Cassia fistula (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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