Talk:Samanea saman

Rain Tree

The article first says that the epithet derives from the leaves folding during rain (how?), then it says it's due (accidental pun!) to the moisture that collects under them, including that produced by cicadas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.206.153 (talk) 05:55, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Gallery

Isn't the gallery excessive, showing several photos of the same three? Please prune! ;-) --Janke | Talk 11:32, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

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Picture of the day

Samanea saman, also known as the rain tree or Albizia saman, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to Central and South America. It is a wide-canopied tree with a large umbrella-shaped crown, and usually reaches a height of 15–25 m (49–82 ft) with a diameter of 30 m (98 ft). The tree has pinkish flowers with white and red stamens, set on heads with around 12–25 flowers per head. These heads may number in the thousands, covering the whole tree.Photograph: Basile Morin

Merge Discussion

Frankly, I cannot figure out why Chankiri Tree is a separate article. It refers to the same plant under a different name and one uh, particularly grotesque, application. It seems amis leave out those names and that history from the Samanea saman article, and the biological info from the first - therefore I'd say the articles have an almost identical scope and should be merged. --Paul Carpenter (talk) 15:37, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Support: It's actually not all that badly written, but it is an entirely redundant article. The stuff about smashing children to death ... grotesque indeed, and largely trivial. I can't say I have much experience in this regard, but I assume any large tree (or rock, or wall, or car bonnet) would do the trick. We can have a sentence about it being a common tree in Cambodia, and I'm not adverse to adding the local name to that sentence and explaining the Hindu significance of the philology of chankiri (aren't they Buddhist in Cambodia?), but that is all the info that I think should be maintained after the merge. Frankly, I think the entire article should be deleted, without even a real merge -this because the name "Chankiri Tree" doesn't exist, it's an unsourced invention/semi-calque by a Wikipedia editor. People in Cambodia use their own script, and don't use English words like "tree". Leo Breman (talk) 14:08, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Support: No reason to have a separate article and I think Leo Breman is largely right about what is worth keeping from Chankiri Tree. Kingdon (talk) 04:26, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

No

It should not be merged, they both talk about different things, the killing tree article talks about the deaths of infants whos heads were smashed against the tree, it only gives you a small detail to the tree to understand why they did it at that specific location, while the samanea saman article is a nature bio article which just simply shares facts about this species of tree, both talk about different points, so it is only safe to say that they should remain separated, the killing tree article is vital to share the deaths of the poor infants who were executed in Cambodia, in a way, its a memorial, and you want to merge it with a stupid nature bio article, they are two different things. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.201.30.158 (talk) 17:10, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Well, this has persuaded me to go ahead with the merge. Wikipedia is not a memorial and it'd be an insultingly crummy one in this case if it was. I'll get to work on merging the articles shortly. --Paul ❬talk❭ 15:01, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Move discussion July 2022

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