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Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth

Synonym	:	Mimosa sirissa Roxb.
Family	:	Leguminosae
Local name	:	English-  East India walnut,  Womans tongue Malayalam- Nenmenivaka, Vaka
Flowering and fruiting period	:	March - December
Distribution	:	Indo-Malaysia and South China
Distribution in kerala	:	All Districts
Habitat	:	Deciduous forests, also in the plains
Endemic /Exotic		Endemic to Indomalaya, New Guinea and Northern Australia.
Uses	:	Leaves and seeds are used in opthalmopathy. Bark is used for boils, leprosy, erysipelas, wounds, cough and dyspnoea, and is used as an antidote for snakebite, food and other poisonings.
Key botanical characters:  Fast-growing, medium-sized deciduous tree with a spreading umbrella-shaped crown of thin foliage and smoothish, finely fissured, grayish-brown bark.Leaves bipinnate, alternate, , glabrous, opposite, even pinnate, , , a gland in between each leaflets, , obliquely. Flowers bisexual, greenish-white, in subglobose heads, together in axillary corymbose racemes. Fruit a pod, flat, oblong, compressed, straw coloured, base and apex obtuse, turgid above the seeded region.