Kassod Tree
ಸೀಮೆತಂಗಡಿമഞ്ഞക്കൊന്നমিনজিরি
Senna siamea (Lam.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- 12 m
Fabaceae
Also called Siamese cassia, Iron Wood
Formerly Cassia arborea, Cassia florida, Cassia gigantea, Cassia siamea, and 3 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
- Sri Lanka, Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 12 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 12 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Cassia du Siam, Séné de Siam
- Chinese
- 暹羅槐, 鐵刀木, 黑心树
- Portuguese
- Cássia-siâmica, Cássia-de-sião
- Indonesian
- Johar
- Finnish
- siaminsenna
- Japanese
- タガヤサン
- Chinese (China)
- 铁刀木
- Thai
- ขี้เหล็ก
- Russian
- Сенна сиамская
- Slovak
- senna siamská
- Simplified Chinese
- 黑心树, 铁刀木, 哈坑懒
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Cássia-de-sião
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Senna siamea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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