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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] Its inflorescence is a cream-coloured puff with many ...
A traditional food plant in Africa, tamarind has the potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable landcare. [53] In Madagascar, its fruit and leaves are a well-known favorite of the ring-tailed lemur , providing as much as 50 percent of their food resources during the year if available.
For the uninitiated, tamarind is a tropical fruit that grows on trees in bean-like pods. Inside hides a nutrient-rich, fibrous, pasty pulp that’s beloved for its tangy, sweet-and- sour taste.
Pithecellobium dulce is a tree that reaches a height of about 10 to 15 m (33 to 49 ft). Its trunk is spiny and up to nine meters in girth (9.4 feet thick DBH) and its leaves are bipinnate . Each pinna has a single pair of ovate-oblong leaflets that are about 2 to 4 cm (0.79 to 1.57 in) long.
Tamarind grows on tamarind trees which are typically found in tropical regions and grow to 24 meters high on average. [3] [10] The trees produce fruit in abundance, on average, for 50 to 60 years but can live for over 200 years. [11] Tamarind trees produce brown fruit pods that enclose one to twelve reddish-brown seeds as well as pulp [citation ...
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 campbellii is a rainforest tree northern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland. Growing to 30 metres tall, it is commonly known as the small-leaved tamarind. It is rare and threatened and is restricted to a small number of sites, each with a maximum of 3 trees per site.
Dialium indum, the tamarind-plum [2] or velvet tamarind, [3] is a tall, tropical, fruit-bearing tree. It belongs to the family Fabaceae, and has small, typically grape-sized edible fruits with brown hard inedible shells. No reports of cultivation exist, information on propagation is limited.