Tamarind trees feature

(a) short stout trunks topped by bushy wide-spreading crowns with arching branches,

(b) ferny, even-pinnate, compound leaves with light green leaflets,

(c) summer bloom of red-veined cream to pale yellow flowers in drooping racemes. (d) plump cinnamon-brown bean-like seed pods filled, when ripe, with an edible sweet-sour pulp which has a variety of culinary uses.