Tamarindipuu – Tamarindus indica

The bole is rounded and up to 8 m in circumference. Bark is rough, fissured, greyish-brown. Leaves are alternate, 5-12 cm long, compound with 10-18 pairs of opposite leaflets. Leaflets are 1.3-2 cm long, narrowly oblong with asymmetric bases and entire margins. Petiole and rachis are finely haired. Stipules fall very early. Flowers are in few-flowered up to about 20 cm long racemes. The flowers are about 2.5 cm across and have three yellow petals with a pattern of red veins as well as two tiny thread-like petals that are barely visible. Fruit is a velvety, rusty-brown, sausage-like, subcylindrical, indehiscent, straight or curved legume. It contains 3-10 seeds that are about 1.6 cm long, irregularly shaped, shiny, smooth and embedded in a sticky edible pulp.