Buy Fresh and Healthy Cadamba/Burflower/Kadam/Kadamba Tree - A Perfect Addition to Your Garden!

Description

Common name:

Kadamba, Kadam, Bur - Flower Tree

Regional name:

Marathi - Kadamba, Hindi - Kadamb, Telugu - Kadambamu, Bengali - Kadam, Tamil - Kapam, Karanaparakkiyam, Cadamba, Vellai; Malayalam - Attutek; Kannada - Kadawala

Category:

Trees

Family:

Rubiaceae or Ixora and Pentas family

Light:

Sun growing, Semi shade

Water:

Normal, Can tolerate more

Primarily grown for:

Foliage

Flowering season:

June, July, August, September

Flower or Inflorescence color:

White, Cream, Off white, Light Yellow

Foliage color:

Green

Plant Height or length:

More than 12 meters

Plant Spread or Width:

More than 12 meters

Plant Form:

Upright or Erect

Plant Description:

- Indigenous to the warmer parts of India.
- It grows to 15-20 m tall.
- Branches are horizontal, leaves large, shining, opposite, elliptic, oblong.
- Large deciduous tree.
- Golden balls of yellow flowers are borne in rounded inflorescence a little smaller then a tennis ball.
- Graceful tree is a admired for golden balls of flowers.
- Acidic but pleasantly flavored fruit.
- Fruit is relished by monkeys, bats and birds.
- Flowers offered in temples.
- Woman decorate their coiffures with kadam flowers which have a delicate scent.
- Growing up to 3 m a year, valued for matchwood or plywood.
- This is the kadamba tree popularly associated with Krishna. Krishna dancing with Radha and his favorite Gopis under this tree is a favorite theme of the Krishna Radha legend and is often represented in miniature painting. This association makes the tree sacred to Hindus.

Growing tips:

- It grows best in warm and humid climate and rich loamy soil.
- The growth is rapid in the first 6-8 years and the tree attains maximum size in about 20 years.
- Flowers appear from June to August.
- Tree comes to flowering when 4-5 years old.
- Planted near houses and roadsides as a shade tree.
- One of the most frequently planted tree in the tropics.
- Kadamba leaves may develop yellowing due to iron deficiency in very alkaline poorly drained soils.