Around 1937-1957, many rain trees were to be cut down to allocate the area for new buildings and enhance cleanliness.

The walkway is lined with huge rain trees.

Most names that originated in Europe (where the tree hardly grows at all) are some variety of "rain tree".

To such young eyes there was no shock value in seeing the flat foliage of rain trees.

The golden rain tree, the pamphlet points out, has "fragrant yellow flowers which bloom in early summer."

That yellow rain tree could go, too.

She runs into the nearby swamp in the middle of the night to find the legendary rain tree.

It then get crushed in a mortar and mixed with rain tree leaves to give it green color.

Besides monkeypod, it's also widely known as a rain tree.

Another reason it's called a rain tree?