Agati sesbania is also known as August flower, Australian corkwood tree, Flamingo bill, Hummingbird tree, Vegetable hummingbird, Grandiflora, Sesban, Swamp pea, Tiger tongue, West Indian pea and white dragon tree. It is called Agasti, Bak, Basma, Basna, Chogache, Hatiya, Gaach Munga in Hindi, Agati, Agusta, Bagphal, Bak, Bake in Bengali, Heta in Marathi, Houwaimal in Manipuri, Agathio in Gujarati, Sevvagatti, Muni, Akatthi and peragathi in Tamil, Agase and agastya in Kannada, Akaththi in Malayalam, Ettagise, Sukanasamu, Avisi and agise in Telugu, Agst in Urdu, Varnari, Munipriya, Agasthi, Agastya, Munitaru, Vangasenaka ,Drigapalaka in Sanskrit. In Oriya we call it Agasti . Its botanical name is Sesbania grandiflora. The generic name is derived from an Arab word for one of the species, S. sesban. The specific epithet means large-flowered in Latin. Agasti or August flower is a small , fast-growing, sparsely branched , soft wooded tree that grows
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