Sesbania Seeds Dealers in Prem Nagar, Dehradun

Sesbania grandiflora a short-lived, quick-growing, soft-wooded tree, 15mt. High and 0.6m in girth it is a natice of Malaysia and is grown in many parts of India such as Punjab, Delhi, Bengal, Assam and the Andamans.  Leaves 15-30cm long, abruptly pinnate; leaflets 41-61, linear-oblong, glabrous, 2.5-5.0cm x 0.5 - 1.6cm; racemes 2 - 4 flowered, short, axillary; flowers 6.0-10cm long with showy, fleshy white, pink or crimson petals; pods pendulous 30.0 - 45cm x 0.6-0.8cm, rather flat and somewhat 4-cornered, non-torulose, septate with swoolen margins and 15-50 pale coloured seeds. Agathi is grown for oranament and is valued as food and also as a good fodder.  It is grown as a support for pepper and betel vines, as shade plant for coconut seedlings, and as wind-break in banana fields. Bark yields a good fibre and a gum annd various parts of agathi have medicinal value.