| Common Name : | Lebbeck, Flea tree, Frywood, etc. |
| Botanical Name : | Albizia lebbeck |
| Synonym : | Acacia lebbek |
| Family : | Fabaceae |
| Bangla Name : | Shirish ful (শিরিষ ফুল). |
| Photo Taken : | Bangladesh |
Botanic name of our today's plant is Albizia lebbeck. It belongs to the plant family Fabaceae. In Bangladesh we call this plant as Shirish/Siris. Common name of the plant is Woman's tongues tree, lebbeck, flea tree, frywood, etc. But in general this plant is also known as Shirish. This plant is native to South Asia and Eastern Asian region. It is naturalized in tropical and subtropical region.
Shirish (Albizia lebbeck) is a medium to tall growing tree that can reach up to 30 meter in height. It is a deciduous plant and leafs are bipinnate. A leaf can hold up to 12 pair of leaflets which are asymmetric. leaflets use to fold after the sunset similar to other mimosa plants.
Shirish (Albizia lebbeck) flowers are attractive and beautiful. The tree bears plenty of showy whitish-green flower during the blooming season. Flowers are actually a cluster of small flowers similar to powderpuff flower. The long stamens from the flower is having green at top and white at bottom. That's why it looks like a whitish-green flower (or can say multi-color flower).
Flowers attract lot of bees and small birds those helps the pollination alongside the air. The fruit is a pod having white (or brownish white) color and the button-like brown seeds are marked in a liner way. During a windy day the seeds use to produce a nice rattling sound.
Although it is usually planted as an ornamental at roadside, but the wood of the Shirish is having a very high value. They are very useful to make the furniture.
Photos of Shirish (Albizia lebbeck) were taken from Dhanmondi, Dhaka. It was the month of May 2015.
This article has written by Lonely Traveler,
for the blog http://icflora.blogspot.com/
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