Family: Bignoniaceae (Jacaranda family)
Brief Details: Fragrant Padri Tree is a large deciduous tree, 10-20 m tall, with velvet-hairy branches. Leaves are compound, 1-2 ft long, with 3-4 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets are 7-15 cm long, broadly elliptic and long-pointed. They are 10-20 cm long and pinkish. Sepal cup is bell-shaped, 1 cm long, hairy, 3-5 lobed. Seed-pod is 1-2 ft long, cylindric and ribbed. Within India, it is found in tropical Himalayas, Assam, Meghalaya and in moist deciduous forests of Western Ghats.