Systematic Classification: Common Name: Ashok tree, Ashokam, Hemapushpam General Information: Saraca asoca is an important tree in the cultural traditions of the Indian subcontinent and adjacent areas. The flower of Ashoka tree is the state flower of Indian state of Odisha. Small trees, up to 5 m tall.Trunk often tubercled; bark lenticellate, dark, shallowly fissured; […]
Systematic Classification: Common Name: Southern silky oak, silk oak or silky oak, silver oak or Australian silver oak. General Information: It is a tree, the largest species in its genus but is not closely related to the true oaks, Quercus. It is a native of eastern coastal Australia, growing in riverine, subtropical and dry rainforest […]
Systematic Classification: Common Name: Cattusjeru, Cera, Charii, Charu, Karuncheru. General Information: Large trees, up to 35 m tall.Bark finely fissured and pustular. Branches with architecture of “Aubreville model”; branchlets stout, terete, glabrous.Latex white turns to black.Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.8-2.5 cm long with a pair of spurs (nearly glabrous and […]
Systematic Classification: Common Name: Mountain Currant Tree , Neyththaali General Information: Mountain Currant Tree is a tree about 10 m tallm with thin flaky bark in old trees. Branchlets are cylindrical, velvety. Bark thin flaky in old trees. Alternately arranged leaves, 8-22 x 2.5-7.7 cm, are usually oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate, tip gradually pointed […]