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Horse Tamarind (tree) |
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Horse Tamarind is a small tree also commonly known as Lead Tree, Wild Tamarind, Jumbie Bean, Jumbay, White Popinac, White Lead Tree, Lead Bean, and Wild Mimosa,
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ton
krathin. |
It bears long, flat bean pods, that are edible when still green (fig.), and are served fresh
as a side dish
with many a Thai dish, though they quickly turn brown and unpalatable if not harvested in due time. |
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Horse Tamarind (tree) |
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Horse Tamarind (tree) |
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It has bipinnately compound leaves, with small, green, narrowly oblong, point-tipped leaflets, and the flowers are round puffballs, that consist of numerous white stamens with hairy, pale yellow anthers.
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