Category: Interesting Facts

Magnifera indica

Systematic Classification Common Name: Mango, Maav General Information: It is an Evergreen tree, which grow up to 30 m high, bark 2-2.5 cm, dark grey, rough with vertical fissures; blaze yellow; exudation yellowish, gummy. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate; petiole 10-75 mm long, stout, glabrous, pulvinate; lamina 9.2-40 x 2.5-8 […]

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Cassine paniculata

Systematic Classification: Common Name: Thannimaram General Information: Trees, to 20 m high; bark grey, smooth; blaze red; exudation watery; branchlets slender, terete. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules minute, cauducous; petiole 8-15 mm, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 7-9 x 2.5-4 cm, elliptic-oblong, obovate, oblanceolate, lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, base acute or cuneate, apex acute or […]

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Syzygium jambos

Systematic Classification: Common Name: Champa, Panineerchampa, Malakkachampa General Information: Syzygium jambos is an evergreen Tree growing to 8 m (26ft) by 8 m (26ft) at a medium rate. The flowers are pollinated by Bees, Insects. The plant is self-fertile. The bole can be 50cm in diameter, often branching from low down. A multipurpose tree that […]

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Mimusops elengi

Systematic Classification: Common Name: Ilanni, Elanchi, Elenji, Bakulam General Information: Evergreen trees, to 20 m high, bark dark grey, cracked or fissured longitudinally, scaly, rough; lenticels vertical; blaze pink with red streaks; exudation white; young branches brown pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, stipulate; stipules lanceolate, caducous; petiole 15-40 mm long, slender, grooved above, pubescent; lamina […]

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