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1. Introduction<br />
Propagation Protocol <strong>of</strong> Oroxylum indicum<br />
Current Name: Oroxylum indicum (L.) Benth. Ex Kurz.<br />
Family: Bignoniaceae<br />
Synonyms: Bignonia Indica L.<br />
Common names: Midnight Horror, Broken Nones Plant, Indian Trumpet<br />
Flower and Tree <strong>of</strong> Damocles.<br />
Vernacular name:<br />
Hindi: Arlu, Urru, Sauna<br />
Kannada: Alangi, Bunepaale, Pathagani<br />
Malayalm: Palakappayyani, Vella pathiri<br />
Marathi: Titu, Ulu<br />
Sanskrit : Syonakah<br />
Tamil : Achi, Pana, Pei maram, Venga maram, Peruvaagai<br />
Telugu : Dundilamu, Pampini, Nemali chettu<br />
2. Botanic description<br />
Amedium sized, s<strong>of</strong>t wooded, deciduous tree, growing 5-10 m tall, about 75<br />
cm girth. Bark is about 6 mm thick, rough, surface brownish grey. Blaze<br />
yellowish green. Wood is yellowish white, s<strong>of</strong>t.<br />
Roots: Primary root long, thick, terete, tapering, whitish; lateral roots<br />
fairly numerous, fibrous, distributed down main root. Hypocotyl distinct<br />
from root, 0.9-1.1 in long, somewhat compressed, tapering slightly upward,<br />
green minutely pubescent.<br />
Branchlets robust, with prominent corky loenticels, hairless. Leaves<br />
opposite, 2-3 pinnate, 1-1.8 m long; each pinnae opposite; leaflets 3-9, oddpaired,<br />
each eggshaped-elliptic, 7-15 x 5-8 cm, base unequal, rounded or<br />
sometimes heart-shaped, apex acuminate, margin entire, hairless. Flowers<br />
bisexual, in large erect terminal racemes; peduncle stout, robust, up to 1 m<br />
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