Adenanthera Pavonina Seeds Saga Tree Coral Tree Red Sandalwood Seeds For Growing Product name: Adenanthera Pavonina Seeds Purity: above 97% Neatness: above 98% Germination rate: above 90% 1kg contains about 3400 seeds. Can be used for bonsai, landscaping, gardening greening, for food and for medicine use. Flower period: April-July. Fruit Period: July-November. Description:
Children love the hard red seeds and few can resist collecting the brightly coloured seeds usually littered under the tree.
The seeds can only germinate if they are scratched (scarified), boiled for one minute, or dipped in sulphuric acid. This suggests that in nature, they must be eaten and go through the digestive system of an animal before germination. The tiny flowers are said to smell vaguely like orange blossoms.
Mangrove and wetland wildlife at Sungei Buloh Nature Park
Main features: Spreading rounded crown, grows up to 30m.
Leaves: Compound bipinnate. Green when young, turning yellow when old.
Flowers: Tiny, yellowish, fragrant i dense drooping rat-tail like flower heads.
Fruits: Curved hanging green pods that turn brown, coil up and split open as they ripen to reveal small bright red seeds.
Status : Common wayside tree.
World distribution: Native to India and southern China, but now found throughout the tropics.
Classification: Family Leguminosae.
Uses as food: The young leaves can be cooked and eaten, but usually only during famine. The leaves were also used to supplement animal fodder, or mulched to fertilise crops. The seeds were eaten in Melanesia and Polynesia and the people there called it the "food tree". The seeds were roasted before eating. Elsewhere they are boiled. In Java, they are roasted, shelled, then eaten with rice. They are said to taste like soy bean. The raw seeds are toxic and may cause intoxication. Studies show the cooked seed to be rich in oil and proteins and easily digested by both humans and livestock.
Other uses: These attractive seeds have been used as beads in jewellery, leis and rosaries. They were also used in ancient India for weighing gold. The seeds are curiously similar in weight. Four seeds make up about one gramme. In fact the name "saga" is traced to the Arabic term for "goldsmith". In India, it is believed that a person may have as many wishes as elephants found in a saga seed. The ground seeds can produce an oil which was used as an industrial lubricant.
The hard, reddish wood is used to make cabinets, often in place of true sandalwood. With exposure to light, the wood it slowly turns purplish-red. It is also valued as firewood as it burns well. The tree resprouts new branches easily and so is not damaged by harvesting for firewood. A red dye is obtained from the wood and used by the Brahmins to make religious markings on their foreheads.
In Malaysia and Indonesia, the trees also provided shade and were planted as "nurse trees" in coffee, clove and rubber plantations.
Traditional medicinal uses: A red powder made from the wood is also used as an antiseptic paste. In Ancient Indian medicine, the ground seeds are used to treat boils and inflammations. A decoction of the leaves is used to treat gout and rheumatism. The bark was used to wash hair.
Role in the habitat: The Saga Seed Tree is believed to be able to fix nitrogen and thus help rejuvenate soils.
Supplier Information
Shanghai Fairy Valley Industrial Co., Ltd.
[ Shanghai China ]
Business Type : Trade Company
Product/Service : Vegetable Seeds , Flower Seeds , Fruit Seeds
Product name: Adenanthera Pavonina Seeds Purity: above 97% Neatness: above 98% Germination rate: above 90% 1kg contains about 3400 seeds. Can be used for bonsai, landscaping, gardening greening, for food and for medicine use. Flower period: April-July. Fruit Period: July-November. Description: 
