Delicate pinnate leaves that fold up at night / Indoor bonsai
The tamarind tree is an evergreen tree with grey-black bark. Its elongated leaflets fold together at night but do not respond to touch. The flower buds are red. The perianth has pale yellow sepals and three yellow petals with red markings and green edges. The filaments, fused together in the lower half, are present only in the three fertile stamens.
native to East Africa. From there, it spread to India and, as a cultivated plant, further into the drier regions of the tropics and subtropics of South and East Asia.
