Meet me
Sissoo
Dalbergia sissoo
A fast riverside tree of the Terai, planted along roads for shade and prized for furniture wood.
Doing okay
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Where I live
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My story
- 01Sissoo leaves fold up in the evening, as if the tree were going to sleep.
- 02It grows so readily from cuttings that a broken branch pushed into wet ground can become a tree.
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What’s happening to me
Drying springs and drought
How serious3/5Sissoo depends on a high water table near rivers. As groundwater drops, whole avenues of planted trees die back from the crown down.
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For grown-ups
- Scientific name
- Dalbergia sissoo
- Family
- Fabaceae