Vital contentment

Vital contentment ⁷⁴¹

 Vital
Bauhinia variegata L., Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae
Orchid tree, Mountain ebony

Physical description:
Large mildly fragrant white flower with five broad irregular slightly overlapping petals, the central petal marked and streaked reddish purple - three prominent sharply recurved stamens arise from the centre - borne in few-flowered racemes. A small to medium-sized tree.

Common name/s
Arbre de Saint-Thomas, Bauhinia, Bauhinier
कचनर, पडरियन (Kachnar, Padrian)
Raktakanchan [Bengali]
Kancanara, Kanchanara, Kovidara [Sanskrit]
Segappumanchori, Segappumandrai, Sigappu Mandharai [Tamil]
Buntfarbene Bauhinie

white