Systematic Classification: Common Name: Citron General Information: Citrus medic is a large fragrant citrus fruit with a thick rind.Shrub or small tree to 3 m. high, with stout spines. Leaves elliptic, 8–20 cm. long, 3–9 cm. broad, serrate; petiole short, wingless and not articulated with lamina. Inflorescence of axillary few-flowered racemes; flowers 3–4 cm. in […]
Systematic Classification: Common Name: Cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon tree. General Information: Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamon is a small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka. It is usually 10 to 15 m in height and is a slow-growing plant. The leaves are ovate-oblong in shape, flowers are greenish in colour and are arranged in panicles, and the […]
Systematic classification: Common Name: Kaletala,Mala Elengi,Perumbal, Malabar Fringe Tree. General Information: Small trees up to 8 m tall. Bark grey, smooth shining, covered with raised corky lenticels; blaze dull orange. Young branchlets subterete, glabrous, whitish. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.5-1.2 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 5-14.5 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic-obovate, apex abruptly acuminate or […]
Systematic Classification: Common name: Solitary fishtail palm, Kitul palm, Toddy palm, Wine palm, Sago palm , Jaggery palm. General Information: Caryota urens is a species of flowering plant in the palm family, native to Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar and Malaysia (perhaps elsewhere in Indo-Malayan region), where they grow in fields and rainforest clearings, it is […]