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The tree's wood can be used for woodworking and tamarind seed oil can be extracted from the seeds. Tamarind's tender young leaves are used in South Indian and Filipino cuisine. [7] [8] Because tamarind has multiple uses, it is cultivated around the world in tropical and subtropical zones.
The leaves are paripinnate, 150–250 mm (5.9–9.8 in) long with 4 to 8, sometimes up to 12 elliptic or egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, 45–190 mm (1.8–7.5 in) long and 16–75 mm (0.63–2.95 in) wide on a petiolule 2–7 mm (0.079–0.276 in) long. The leaflets are leathery with prominent veins and the lower ...
Cupaniopsis flagelliformis, commonly known as brown tuckeroo or weeping flower tamarind, [2] is a tree in the lychee and maple family Sapindaceae, endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small tree that inhabits tropical and sub-tropical rainforest and monsoon forest .
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Leaves. The river tamarind tree is small and grows up to 7–18 metres, its bark is grey and cracked. Its branches have no thorns, each branch has 6–8 pairs of leaf stalks that bear 11–23 pairs of leaflets, each leaflet is 8–17 mm long with a pale green surface and whitish underneath. [6] [2]
The small-leaved tamarind grows to 30 metres and has a compact canopy, making it good to use as a screening tree. It has small three-lobed fruit capsules. The fruit is edible and is commercially produced as bushfood. It is red when ripe and can be made into jam. [citation needed] D. campbellii seedling
Dialium guineense, the velvet tamarind, [3] is a tall, tropical, fruit-bearing tree in the family Fabaceae. It has small, typically grape-sized, edible fruits with brown, hard, inedible shells. It has small, typically grape-sized, edible fruits with brown, hard, inedible shells.
Diploglottis diphyllostegia is a tree growing up to 30 m (98 ft) high. The trunk is up to 30 cm (12 in) diameter, often fluted or irregularly shaped in cross section and may be buttressed. [5] [6] The large compound leaves measure around 40–50 cm (16–20 in) long with up to 9 leaflets either side of the rachis.