Systematic Classification: Common Name: Indian birthwort, Garudakodi,Kudukkamooli. General information: Aristolochia indica (native language: Garudakkodi / Eswaramooli) is a creeper plant found in Southern India and also Sri Lanka. This plant is critical to the survival of the southern birdwing and common birdwing, as well as crimson and common rose butterflies. It reaches a height of […]
Systematic Classification: Common Name: Jack fruit, Pilavu, Kottachakka, Chakka maram, General Information: Evergreen trees grow up to 20 m tall. Trunk usually tubercled; bark blackish-grey, lenticels reddish-brown, irregularly flaky; blaze cream. Branchlets terete, glabrous. Latex white, profuse. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules oblong or lanceolate, to 5 x 1.8 cm, caducous, leaving annular scar; petiole […]
Systematic Classification: Common Name: Flame of the Forest, Palash and Bastard Teak. General Information: It is a species of Butea native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ranging across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, SriLanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, and western Indonesia. It is a small-sized dry-season, deciduous tree, growing […]
Systematic Classification: Local Name: Neyaram, Kambilivirinji, Pattutthalli. General Information: Trees, to 18 m high, bark dark grey, smooth, lenticellate; young shoots densely fulvous tomentose. Leaves simple, subverticillate, opposite or subopposite, 7-25 x 2.5-6 cm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute or attenuate, margin entire, glabrous above, villous beneath, chartaceous; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, pinnate, […]