Description

• Copper pod is sometime also called yellow flame tree, because of the resemblance of its fern-like leaves to that of Gulmohar.
• It is a very handsome tree with its spreading crown of many branches consisting of feathery mimosa like leaves and abundance of bright yellow blooms.
• When the copper-red seedpods cover the tree in profusion it is a wonderful sight.
• Thus, the tree is much cultivated as an ornamental.

Uses

• The elegant yellow flowers of Peltophorumpterocarpum makes it an ornamental tree.
• Peltophorumpterocarpum provides wonderful shades. It is also very suitable to be a street tree, however regular pruning is required.
• It is used for fodder.
• The bark can also be used as dyes as it contains tannins, giving a light-yellow colour to leather.