Avenue Plants

Santalum album, or Indian sandalwood, is a small tropical tree, and the traditional source of sandalwood oil. It is native to southern India and Southeast Asia. It is considered sacred in some religions like Hinduism, and some cultures place great significance on its fragrant qualities. It should be planted in good sunlight and does not require a lot of water. The tree starts to flower after 7 years. When the tree is still young the flowers are white and with age they turn red or orange. The trunk of the tree starts to develop its fragrance after about 10 years of growth, but is not ready to harvest till after 20. The tree rarely lives more than 100 years.

• Item Code: SANDALWOODPLANTS
• Production Capacity: 15000
• Delivery Time: 1 WEEK

It is a deciduous tree with bright pink to light purple flowers.It is used for ornamental purpose as a specimen and avenue tree

Indian sandalwood, is a small tropical tree, and the traditional source of sandalwood oil. It is mostly used in commercial, therapeutic, cosmetic, and medicines.

Teak is a tropical hardwood tree species.It is a large, deciduous tree.Tectona grandis has small, fragrant white flowers arranged in dense clusters at the end of the branches. The flowers are usually fragrant, and they can bloom from June to August. Fruits appear from September to December. The wood teak is hard in texture and brownish-golden in colour. 

Neem tree is basically a tropical tree. It can grow at any high temperature but the entirely wet provinces are unsuitable for its growth. Neem tree belongs to a category called mesophyte means it can exist neither in a dry environment nor in seasonally wet areas. Moreover, it cannot tolerate drought conditions. Neem tree is well known for its medicinal value, and India is supposed to be its origin.

Specifications:

• Common name: Neem Tree, Nim, Margosa Tree, Vespa, Nimbay, Yepa, Pichumarda
• Color: Green
• Bloom time: March to May
• Height: 15–20 meters (49–66 ft), rarely to 35–40 meters (115–131 ft)
• Difficulty level:Very EasyFamily: Meliaceae

Planting Care:

• It needs and positively thrives in hot weather, but it can handle the occasional cold spell.
• Sunlight: Full Sun to Partial Shade
• Soil: Any
• Water: Dry
• Temprature: Temperatures up to 50°C (120F) are fine for growing neem trees.

Care:

• The seeds should be good.
• Provided that only a few trees are to be planted, and there is sufficient moisture available, with minimum weeds, the seeds may be sown directly into the ground.
• Two to three seeds are placed together about 1 cm deep in loose soil.
• After germination, only the strongest plant should be retained.
• When planting a large number, it is advisable to cultivate young plants first in pots, trays or plastic bags.
• After 3 months, they should be transplanted into the ground.
• When using bags or pots care should be taken that the plants are not allowed to develop to a stage where the tap root has pierced the bottom and has to be shortened before transplantation.
• This weakens the trees and substantially slows their growth.
• The one single thing that neem trees can not handle are soggy, waterlogged soils.
• The plant roots need to breathe, so don try growing neem trees in swamps.

Harvesting:

• Neem trees bloom for the first time when they have reached the age of 2 to 3 years, and bear fruit at the age of 3 to 4 years. They normally produce fruit once a year, but in some moist zones twice a year. The fruit of the neem can either be shaken off the tree, picked, or stripped from the branches. When ripe it is yellow in colour, about 2 cm in length and oval-shaped. In the soft, sweet fruit there is a light-coloured seed of about 1.5 cm in length, containing one, or sometimes two, brown seed kernels. After harvesting the fruit the ripe pulp should be removed as quickly as possible. In some regions, birds or fruit bats eat the sweet pulp, so that a lot of clean seeds can be found on the ground.

Special Feature:

• Growing neem trees is not hard. The neem tree is very hardy and fast growing. It is a Medicinal Plant.

Indian sandalwood, is a small tropical tree, and the traditional source of sandalwood oil. It is mostly used in commercial, therapeutic, cosmetic, and medicines.

It is a small tree that grows to 5-8 meters in height and has a dark grayish bark. The timber is highly demanded domestically and internationally, and especially in East Asian countries. Red Sandalwood timber is used for carvings, furniture, poles, and house posts.

Calophyllum inophyllum is a large evergreen plant, commonly called tamanu, oil-nut, mastwood, beach calophyllum or beautyleaf. It is native to tropical Asia and Wallacea.It usually reaches 8 to 30 m (26 to 98 ft) in height.Planted in hedges and as a wind break.
The tree is sometimes used in reforestation schemes.

• Item Code: PONNA
• Production Capacity: 2000
• Delivery Time: 1 WEEK
• Packaging Details: THROUGH TRUCK

This bottlebrush grows like a tree and can reach between 15 and 30 feet (4.5 and 9 meters) in height. It is drought resistant and hardy and has attractive, narrow foliage and white, papery bark. The flower spikes are typically white, cream, or light green, but pink, red and mauve varieties can be found.

Khaya senegalensis is a hardy tree with a long lifespan and is grown as an ornamental tree. It has a thick, spreading canopy that can provide shade for a large area.The tree is considered to be an invasive species in some locations but can be used for hedging or landscaping purposes.

We are offering Spathodea campanulata Plant to our client.

Specifications:

• Common name: African tulip
• Color:orange-red
• Height:80 ft
• Difficulty level: Easy
• Family: Bignoniaceae

Planting Care:

• Sunlight: African tulip tree will survive in shade, but demands full sun for fast growth and best flowering.
• Soil: This species loves rich soil, but puts up with just about anything with a little fertility to it, including limerick.
• Water: These trees grow best with plenty of moisture, but will shed their leaves and endure drought.
• Temperature: Top growth will be killed at 28-30ºF (-2.2 - -1.1ºC), but the roots may survive down to 22ºF (-5.6ºC) or below.
• Fertilizer: Fertilize early in the plant s growing cycle - spring for summer plants, fall for winter plants.

Use:
Medicinal use:

• Spathodea campanulata has many medicinal uses both where it is native and introduced.
• Extracts of bark, leaves, and flowers are used to treat malaria, HIV, diabetes mellitus, edema, dysentery, constipation, gastrointestinal disorders, ulcers, skin diseases, wounds, fever, urethral inflammation, liver complaints and as a poison antidote.
• It may be effective as malaria prophylactic and in the control of Aedes mosquitoes.

Ornamental use:

• African tulip trees are grown for shade, color, and tropical effects.
• The wood is difficult to burn, so the tree is also valuable for fire resistant landscaping.
• African tulip tree is planted as an ornamental, a wayside tree and shade tree.

 

P. cineraria is a small tree, ranging in height from 3–5 m (9.8–16.4 ft). The leaves are bipinnate, with seven to fourteen leaflets on each of one to three pinnae. Branches are thorned along the internodes. Flowers are small and creamy-yellow and followed by seeds in pods. The tree is found in extremely arid conditions, with rainfall as low as 15 cm (5.9 in) annually; but is indicative of the presence of a deep water table. As with some other Prosopis spp., P. cineraria has demonstrated a tolerance of highly alkaline and saline environments.

The tree should not be confused with the similar-looking Chinese lantern tree, Dichrostachys cinerea. They can be told apart by the flowers. While the Chinese lantern tree has bicolored pink-yellow flowers, the true Shami tree has yellow-colored bristled flowers only, like most other mesquites

Medium to large shrub to a small tree, up to 4m in height. Leaves are divided into two lobes, light green in colour, with a leathery texture, carried on branches that are often drooping. It produces large bell-shaped, bright yellow flowers with a black to deep maroon coloured centre from December to March. The fruit are pea like, slender and velvety. They are light green, turning a pale brown with age and are produced from January to June or even later. Bark is gray or brown.

 

Family : Fabaceae

Distribution:
These plants can be found along the coastal strip from southern Kwazulu-Natal to Maputoland, Mpumalanga as well as Mozambique, Zimbabwe, tropical Africa and as far as India and Sri Lanka . It is found in woodland, riverine bush and coastal dune bush.

Derivation of name and historical aspects:
The genus name " Bauhinia " honours herbalist brothers from the 16 th century, Johann and Caspar Bauhin. They were identical twin brothers, making it a very apt name as the two lobes of the leaves, when folded together, are identical.

 

 

Botanical name: Bauhinia purpurea

 

Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)

 

The Purple Orchid Tree is an exotic tropical tree that blooms over a long period of time. The beautiful & fragrant, classic, Orchid-like flowers of Bauhinia purpurea makes this small tree, native to India, a favourite of many plant lovers. In fall, before the leaves drop, Orchid-Tree is festooned with many showy and delightfully fragrant, five-inch-wide blossoms, the narrow purple, pink, and lavender petals arranged to closely resemble an orchid. These flowers appear on the trees from September through November and are a beautiful sight to see, creating a vivid splash of color in the autumn landscape. Curiously, the flower colors varies quite a lot. There are some trees which have white flowers with only some streaks of purple in them. Purple orchid tree can be easily distinguished from Orchid Tree (Bauhinia variegata) in that the petals of Purple orchid tree are narrower and do not overlap. On the other hand, the petals of Bauhinia variegata are broad and overlap - it never open fully flat. The flowers are followed by 12-inch-long, slender, brown, flat seedpods which usually persist on the tree throughout the winter. The foliage light green and deeply notched at the tip. Bauhinia purpurea can reach up to 20 feet tall and have a 25 foot crown.

 

Green swietenia african mahogany The green swietenia african mahogany is a beautiful evergreen tree that can grow up to fourty feet tall. It has glossy, dark green leaves and produces yellow flowers in the spring. This plant can be found in the southern United States and is often used as a shade tree.

It has fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of orange-red flowers over summer. In many tropical parts of the world it is grown as an ornamental tree and in English it is given the name royal poinciana, flamboyant, phoenix flower,flame of the forest, or flame tree. It is referred to as the May-flower tree. Its flowering season is May–July,

• Item Code: GULMOHAR
• Production Capacity: 1000
• Delivery Time: 1 WEEK
• Packaging Details: THROUGH TRUCK

Tabebuia rosea, also called pink poui, and rosy trumpet tree is a neotropical tree that grows up to 30 m (98 ft) and can reach a diameter at breast height of up to 100 cm (3 ft). Germination of seeds is extremely easy and efficient, reaching almost 100%. It is a fairly fast growing tree

• Item Code: TabebuiaRosea
• Production Capacity: 1000
• Delivery Time: 1 WEEK

Is a large evergreen tree.It is known for its fragrant flowers, and its timber used in woodworking.It has been used for ornamental, medicinal and commercial purpose. The bark and the flower render it its therapeutic benefits.

In landscaping, an avenue, alameda, or allee, is traditionally a straight path or road with a line ... In most cases, the trees planted in an avenue will be all of the same species or cultivar.

• It is also known as the Orchid tree, camel foot tree. 
• This is a quick growing & suitable for road median planting.It is mostly recommended for planting in parks, gardens, and around temples.

The tree grows to a height of between 18 and 25 metres and has a spread of 7 to 11 metres. It reaches maturity between 6 and 8 years of age and lives for up to 40 years. It is a versatile tree which can grow in various soil types and climates with a preference for moist climates.Flowers give very pleasant smell.The tree is considered ornamental and the pleasant fragrance of the flowers renders it ideal as a garden tree. The wood is also used as timber and the bark is used as an inferior substitute for cork.The leaves are also used as a cheap substitute for tobacco in cigarettes.

• Delivery Time: 1 week
• Packaging Details: THROUGH TRUCK

It has rough, gray bark and large leaves that grow in clusters of seven. The flowers are small and greenish-yellow in color. The fruits are thin pods that can grow up to 20 inches long. The sap of the tree is sticky and bitter.

Specifications:

• Family: Apocynaceae
• Common name: Dita tree, devil tree.
• Height: 100 feet.
• Difficulty level: Easy.

Planting Care:

• Sunlight: Full sun.
• Soil: Fertile, moist, but well-drained soil.
• Water: Keep the soil moist.
• Temperature: Annual temperature in the range 12 - 32° C.

 

Use:
Medicinal use:

• It is used to treat bowel complaints, abdominal pains, fevers and irregular menstruation, and has proved a valuable remedy for chronic diarrhoea and the advanced stages of dysentery.
• A decoction is applied as a wash for skin diseases, and as a gargle.

Culinary use:

• The latex provides a good quality chewing gum.

 

Rudraksha is a large evergreen broad-leaved tree whose seed is traditionally used for prayer beads in Hinduism and Buddhism. Rudraksha may be produced by several species of Elaeocarpus.Rudraksha tree bear leaves which look similar to leaves of mango tree.Flowers Season is June - August.These fruits are shaped like berries.

The breathtaking, frothy flowers appear in late summer on a treetop full of soft, fern-like leaves. The tree is bare in winter and the canopy of fine-leafed foliage in spring, summer and fall creates an understory of dappled shade. This provides a perfect environment for certain plants that thrive in the less-blazing sun of winter and more filtered light in summer.

Common name: Yellow Poinciana
Color: Yellow, gold.
Bloom time:Late summer through early autumn.
Height:40 feet.
Difficulty level:Easy.

Family: Fabaceae

Planting & Care
Because the canopy s eventual size is somewhat unpredictable, the tree is best planted 20 feet from the house. Come in 10 feet or more from walks and driveways to avoid eventual problems with roots.

Sunlight:Full to part sun.

Soil:Fertile, well-drained soil.

Water:Regular watering schedule that allows a bit of time for the soil to dry out between waterings.

Temprature:Warm.

Fertilizer:Fertilize 3 times a year - once each in spring, summer and fall - with a quality granular fertilizer.

Care:

• Trimming isn t necessary other than to prune branch ends after flowering is done in order to promote more bushy growth.
• Also you can remove any too-low branches as the plant matures.

Use
Ornamental use:

• These trees work best on a large property or as a single specimen tree in a medium-sized yard.
• Landscape uses for peltophorum tree solitary specimen tree shade tree lining a large drive along the property line

 

T. arjuna grows to about 20–25 metres tall; usually has a buttressed trunk, and forms a wide canopy at the crown, from which branches drop downwards. It has oblong, conical leaves which are green on the top and brown below; smooth, grey bark; it has pale yellow flowers which appear between March and June; its glabrous, 2.5 to 5 cm fibrous woody fruit, divided into five wings, appears between September and November.

As a young plant, its leaves start out heart-shaped, then gradually become arrowhead shaped as it matures. Its dark-green leaves have silvery white or cream variation, making this a decorative and popular house plant. Although it may be grown outdoors in some regions, the arrowhead plant is typically grown as a houseplant.

 

Specifications:

• Common name: Nephthytis, Arrowhead plant, Arrowhead vine, Arrowhead Philodendron, Goosefoot, African evergreen, American evergreen.
• Bloom time: Rarely flowers indoors.
• Height:3.00 to 6.00 feet
• Difficulty level: Easy
• Family: Araceae

Planting Care:

• It is easily grown is a house plant in warm, humidified areas. Prefers bright indirect light. Protect from direct sun. May be grown on a moss pole or in a hanging basket. Best grown in a soil-based potting mix.
• Water regularly during the growing season, but reduce watering from fall to late winter.
• Likes high humidity, so consider sitting plant in a humidified room or place pot on a tray of wet pebbles.
• Sunlight: Bright, filtered light or Part shade.
• Soil: Any good potting mix. Use a container with good drainage.
• Water: Keep the potting mix moist in summer, allowing the surface to dry out before watering again.
• Water less often in winter, letting the top half of the potting mix dry out.
• Temperature: Normal room temperatures. 60-75°F/16-24°C.
• Fertilizer: Feed every 2 weeks from spring through fall with a balanced houseplant fertilizer diluted to half the normal strength. In winter, feed monthly.

Care:

• Arrowhead plant care requires humid conditions, especially during dry winter months.
• Mist the plant daily or place its container on a tray filled with pebbles and water to increase humidity for optimal growth.
• Keep them away from direct sunlight, as this will cause the arrowhead plant to burn or bleach.
• The arrowhead plant root structure is quite extensive, spreading and growing to the point of becoming invasive in the wild.
• Even within a contained environment, because of arrowhead plant root structure, the plant should be repotted every second spring.

Handroanthus impetiginosus, the pink ipê, pink lapacho or pink trumpet tree.It is distributed throughout North, Central and South America, from northern Mexico south to northern Argentina. It is the national tree of Paraguay.It is used as a honey plant, and widely planted as an ornamental tree in landscaping gardens, public squares and boulevards due to its impressive and colorful appearance as it flowers.

It is a rather large deciduous tree, with trunks sometimes reaching 80 cm (31 in) in width and 30 m (98 ft) in height.

Gmelina Arborea is a fast growing tree, which grows on different localities and prefers moist fertile valleys with 750–4500 mm rainfall.

Specifications:

• Common name: Gamhar, gumhar, gamari, beechwood, goomar teak, Kashmir tree, Malay beechwood, white teak, vemane.
• Color: Yellow and orange mix.
• Bloom time: February to April
• Height: Up to 30m.
• Difficulty level: MediumFamily: Lamiaceae

Planting Care:

• Gmelina is very sensitive to soil conditions. It is capable of survival on poor dry sites, but its growth under these,conditions is poor and trees on such sites are very branchy and stunted, and tend to stagnate after a few years. Its, best growth is on freely drained, fertile soils, with no hardpan or other impediment to root development, in moist tropical regions.
• Sunlight: Full Sun
• Soil: Well-drained soil with
• Water: Keep soil moist throughout the growing season.
• Temperature: 20-28 deg.
• Fertilizer: Apply any organic fertilizer.

Care:

• Fill a pot or flat with soil, then water well.
• Place the seeds on top of the damp soil and cover with just enough soil so that the seed is no longer visible.
• You don’t need to water again until the soil is dry at least an inch deep.
• The easiest way to kill a neem seedlings – or tree – is to overwater.

• Harvesting: An alternative method of propagation involves taking cuttings from the tips of two- to three-week-old plants. The cuttings should be 12 cm long and include the terminal bud and four to six leaves, each reduced to one third of its surface area.

Care:

• You will need to bring your seedlings inside before temperatures drop below about 35 degrees.
• Put them in your sunniest window and provide supplemental light in the evening.

Special Feature:

• The Herbarium (one of the behind-the-scenes areas of Kew) contains many dried specimens of Gmelina arborea.

Use:
Medicinal use:

• Gmelina Arborea has a wide range of local medicinal uses.
• The juice of young leaves has been used to treat gonorrhoea and as a cough medicine.
• The leaf juice has also been used externally to treat ulcers.

 

 

Other common names include Esperanza (Spanish for hope), Trumpet Flower, Yellow Bells, Yellow Elder, Yellow Trumpet Flower, and Yellow Bignonia. The plant is native to south-central Texas, Arizona, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far as northern Argentina.Tecoma argentina is upright, open, borderline hardy, semi-evergreen shrub with pinnate leaves divided into lance-shaped, toothed, dark green leaflets. Racemes or panicles of funnel-shaped, yellow-orange flowers bloom from spring into autumn.

• Item Code: TECOMO
• Production Capacity: 500
• Delivery Time: 1 WEEK
• Packaging Details: BAG

Ficus religiosa is unrivalled for its antiquity and religious significance. It is a perfect shade tree.It also possess medicinal properties that helps in cleansing the blood etc...

The tamarind is a long-lived, medium-growth tree.The tree grows well in full sun.Throughout South Asia and the tropical world, tamarind trees are used as ornamental, garden, and cash crop plantings. Commonly used as a bonsai species in many Asian countries, it is also grown as an indoor bonsai in temperate parts of the world

• Item Code: Tamarindusindica
• Production Capacity: 1000
• Delivery Time: 1 WEEK

 

Specifications:

• Common name: Flamboyant Tree, Flame Tree
• Color: Yellow
• Bloom time: Late spring and early summer.
• Height:20 -30 .
• Difficulty level: Easy.
• Family: Fabaceae
• Planting Care
• Sunlight: Full Sun.
• Soil: Acidic, Neutral, Alkaline
• Water: Drought Tolerant, Average Water.
• Temperature: Should not be exposed to temperatures below about 45ºF (7.2ºC).
• Fertilizer: Apply dolomite in autumn, and six weeks later some phosphatic fertilizer.

Care:

• Pruning should be used in the early years to create a stronger foundation since the branches tend to be weak.

Use:
Ornamental use:

• Feature Plant, Shade Trees, Street Trees, Tropical Use this “beyond beautiful” tree as a seaside specimen or space-requiring street tree near the beach or inland.
• It may also be trained as a bonsai.

 

Cassia fistula, commonly called golden shower tree, is a small to medium-sized tree that typically grows to 30-40' tall in an upright form often open at the top. It is native to India, Malaysia and Southeast Asia. It is well-known for producing a show-stopping bloom of yellow flowers in May-June/July.

These flowers appear on the trees from September through November and are a beautiful sight to see, creating a vivid splash of color in the autumn landscape. It is a decidious to semi-evergreen tree.

Cassia fistula, also known as golden shower, purging cassia, Indian laburnum, Kani Konna, or pudding-pipe tree.The species is native to the Indian subcontinent and adjacent regions of Southeast Asia. It is the official state flower of Kerala state in India.It is a medium-sized tree.It is widely grown as an ornamental plant in tropical and subtropical areas.

Terminalia catappa is a large tropical tree in the leadwood tree  Common names in English include country almond, Indian almond, Malabar almond, sea almond, tropical almond, beach almond and false kamani.The tree grows to 35 metres (115 feet) tall, with an upright, symmetrical crown and horizontal branches.As the tree gets older, its crown becomes more flattened to form a spreading, vase shape.

Cordia sebestena is a shrubby tree with common names  siricote or kopté (Mayan) in 19th Century northern Yucatán, scarlet cordia in Jamaica, and Geiger tree. It  is widely planted throughout the tropics as an ornamental plant in gardens for its showy flowers. It is a slow-growing plant, and sheds enough leaves and fruit to require some upkeep.It grows to a maximum height of 8–9 m (25–30 ft) at maturity, with a nearly equal spread. The crown is round to vase-shaped. Branches tend to be somewhat drooping, and the tree is naturally multitrunked. When only a single trunk is allowed to develop, it can attain a diameter of 30 cm (12 in).

• Production Capacity: 1000
• Delivery Time: 1 WEEK
• Packaging Details: BAG

It is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 10–12 metres (33–39 ft) tall, deciduous in the dry season. The leaves are 10–20 centimetres (3.9–7.9 in) obcordate shaped, long and broad, rounded, and bilobed at the base and apex. The flowers are conspicuous, bright pink or white, 8–12 centimetres (3.1–4.7 in) diameter, with five petals. Pollens are elongated, approximately 75 microns in length.

The fruit is a seedpod 15–30 centimetres (5.9–11.8 in) long, containing several seeds. The seedpod dries completely on the tree, and when mature begins to twist into a helix or corkscrew shape, (see below), ultimately exploding open—with a very audible "clack"—to deliver its seeds into the environs.