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Cassia
Cassia typically refers to cassia bark, the spice made from the bark of East Asian evergreen trees.
34 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Golden Shower Tree
speciesCassia fistula

Gold medallion tree
speciesCassia leptophylla

Cassia bakeriana
speciesCassia bakeriana

Pink Shower Tree
speciesCassia grandis

Java Cassia
speciesCassia javanica

sjambok-pod
speciesCassia abbreviata

rainbow shower tree
hybridCassia × nealiae

Cassia sieberiana
speciesCassia sieberiana

Roxburgh's Cassia
speciesCassia roxburghii

Leichhardt Bean
speciesCassia brewsteri

Velvet Bean-Tree
speciesCassia tomentella

Cassia moschata
speciesCassia moschata

Cassia marksiana
speciesCassia marksiana

Cassia ferruginea
speciesCassia ferruginea

Cassia leiandra
speciesCassia leiandra

Cassia queenslandica
speciesCassia queenslandica

Kenyan Shower
speciesCassia afrofistula

Cassia artensis
speciesCassia artensis

Cassia arereh
speciesCassia arereh

Cassia mannii
speciesCassia mannii

Cassia spruceana
speciesCassia spruceana
Cassia burttii
speciesCassia burttii

Cassia fikifiki
speciesCassia fikifiki

Cassia angolensis
speciesCassia angolensis
Cassia cowanii
speciesCassia cowanii

Cassia swartzioides
speciesCassia swartzioides

Cassia fastuosa
speciesCassia fastuosa
Cassia eremophila
speciesCassia eremophila
Cassia thyrsoidea
speciesCassia thyrsoidea
Cassia midas
speciesCassia midas
Cassia aubrevillei
speciesCassia aubrevillei
Cassia hippophallus
speciesCassia hippophallus
Cassia hintonii
speciesCassia hintonii
Cassia rubriflora
speciesCassia rubriflora
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.100

Garden of Health
1507 · p.80

The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.119

The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.120

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.142

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.142

Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.226

Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.238

A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.765

Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.796

The Plants of Egypt
Prospero Alpini · 1592 · p.17

Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.27
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68685.