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Latin (Botanical) name: Sterculia africana (Lour.) Fiori.

Family: Sterculiaceae

Common name: Sterculia, Baroot.

Origin: Egypt

Plant description:

STERCULIACEAE Vent. Petals absent ; flowers unisexual or polygamous ; tree.

STERCULIA L. Large tree with thick grey branches. Leaves cordate-based, rounded or 3-lobed, long-petioled, almost glabrous.

STERCULIA AFRICANA (Lour.) Fiori: Flowers numerous in axillary rich panicles. Calyx downy outside, smooth and pink inside. Fruiting carpels (follicles) 3-5, spreading, acuminate, downy outside. (Frut.)

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

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