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Tree · Peltophorum pterocarpum
Radhachura (copper pod)
पीला गुलमोहर (peela gulmohar)
IUCN LC · Least concern
A spreading avenue tree that carries upright spikes of crinkled yellow flowers and rust-brown winged pods, planted as a partner to the scarlet gulmohar.
How to recognise it
Yellow flowers held upward, not hanging, with rusty buds below them, and flat copper-coloured pods that stay on all winter.
Where to see it
Kolkata
In Bengali it is radhachura, «Radha's crest», to the gulmohar's krishnachura; the pair is planted together along Kolkata roads.
The Maidan (in season) · Eco Park (Prakriti Tirtha) (in season)