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''Neolamarckia cadamba'', commonly called kadam, is an evergreen, tropical tree native to South and Southeast Asia. The genus name honours French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. The species has been widely but incorrectly called ''Anthocephalus chinensis''. It has scented orange flowers in dense globe-shaped clusters. The flowers are used in perfumes. The tree is grown as an ornamental plant and for timber and paper-making. Kadam features in Indian religions and mythologies. ==Description== A fully mature kadam tree can reach up to in height. It is a large tree with a broad crown and straight cylindrical bole. It is quick growing, with broad spreading branches and grows rapidly in the first 6–8 years. The trunk has a diameter of 100–160 cm, but typically less than that. Leaves are long. Flowering usually begins when the tree is 4–5 years old. Kadam flowers are sweetly fragrant, red to orange in colour, occurring in dense, globular heads of approximately diameter. The fruit of ''N. cadamba'' occur in small, fleshy capsules packed closely together to form a fleshy yellow-orange infructescence containing approximately 8000 seeds. On maturing, the fruit splits apart, releasing the seeds, which are then dispersed by wind or rain.〔http://www.agricultureinformation.com/forums/questions-answers/11926-anthocephalus-kadamba.html.- Horticulture/Suryanarmada, Agriculture Arbitration Consultant, Chennai, India.〕〔(- The Environmental Information System(ENVIS), Ministry of Environment and Forests - Centre of Mining environment )〕 Some botanical features are detailed below: * Leaves glossy green, opposite, simple more or less sessile to petiolate, ovate to elliptical with dimensions of by . * Flowers inflorescence in clusters; terminal globose heads without bracteoles, subsessile fragrant, orange or yellow flowers; Flowers bisexual, 5-merous, calyx tube funnel-shaped, corolla gamopetalous saucer-shaped with a narrow tube, the narrow lobes imbricate in bud. * Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla tube, filaments short, anthers basifixed. Ovary inferior, bi-locular, sometimes 4-locular in the upper part, style exserted and a spindle-shaped stigma. * Fruitlets numerous with their upper parts containing 4 hollow or solid structures. Seed trigonal or irregularly shaped. ''N. cadamba'' is native to the following areas: * Southern China * Indian subcontinent: India (n. & w.); Bangladesh; Nepal; Sri Lanka * Southeast Asia: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam, Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Australia It is an introduced species in Puerto Rico at Toro Negro State Forest.〔(''Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro.'' ) Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. (P-030 ) Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. Retrieved 13 September 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neolamarckia cadamba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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