CHUXAY GARDEN Red Cassia, Cassia Marginata Seed,Red Shower Tree 5 Seeds Deciduous Tree Privacy Screen Plant Wonderful Choice for Garden

In delicate contrast to the vivid hues of our other spring flowering trees, the Pink Cassias, with their lovely cool shades of pinks, greens and white, are a beautiful and restful sight. No one could fail to be moved by the glory of a Cassia in full bloom when its long, sweeping branches are laden with blossom. It quickly became popular and are now common in gardens and on roadsides. The Red Cassia (C. marginata) known as Vakai and Kirudam in Tamil and Samarela in Telegu, is smaller and less robust than the other varieties, but is extremely beautiful at all times of the year. The name refers to the thickened margins of the leaves. In May and June, the upper surfaces of the downward sweeping, hairy branches are laden with copious, short clusters of deep pink flowers. The tree appears almost overweighted with the profusion of blossoms. The flowers are quite small, little more than 1 inch across, with five petals, two of which are often slightly larger. The calyx is pink and the nine stamens are in three groups; three are very long and curved, the next four are less than half that length and all bear red anthers. The remaining two are very short and have yellow anthers. The flowers are more of a salmon-pink than the other Cassias and each petal is delicately veined with green, the pink becoming deeper as the flower ages. The bracts at the bases of the flower stalks are palegreen and the calices pink. Each leaf bears from five to ten pairs of small leaflets, oblong and blunt ended. The pods are slender 10-inch cylinders.