Common Name: Golden shower (English.); Kanikonna (Malayalam)
Cultural value: 'State flower' of Kerala.
Eco-value: Monitor plant of Climate change.
Medicinal value: Leaves are laxative, antiperiodic and depurative. Fruits are sweet, cooling, purgative, carminative, anti-inflammatory, diuretic and ophthalmic.
Ritual value: Used in flower-sighting ceremony (Vishukkani) in first day of Medam (April-May), the first month ofthe astronomical New Year (9th month of Kollavarsham or Malayalam Era)