Cassia fistula
    
    
  
  
Tree of up to 20 m in height, smooth greyish bark. Composite glabrous leaves, over 35 cm; 4 to 8 pairs of folioles, oblong, obovate or rounded, 7 to 20 cm, glabrous, with a shiny bright green upper surface, pale on the underside, chartaceous. Yellow flowers grouped in bright and colourful axillary racemes; rounded sepals; yellow petals of 1.5 cm, with prominent dark veins. Fruit, subcylindrical, woody, brown - ochre pod, 8 to 15 cm.
Brown seeds, flattened, covered with a sticky pulp.