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Fagraea zeylanica Thunb.
Synonym
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Fagraea coromandelina
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Family
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Loganiaceae
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Local name
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English - Perfume Flower Tree
Malayalam – Kompal
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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March-November
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Distribution
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Pantropical
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Distribution
in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Moist deciduous, evergreen, semi-evergreen and
shola
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Uses
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used to make perfumes
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Key Botanical Characters :.Small trees,
usually epiphytic on tree trunks; branchlets stout with prominent leaf-scars.
Leaves simple, opposite,.Flowers large, 6-8 cm across, creamy white.Calyx
deeply 5-lobed; lobes ca 8 mm long, obovate, acute or obtuse. Corolla
funnel-form; tube 4-5 cm long; lobes 5, broad, twisted to right. Stamens 5,
adnate at base of corolla-tube.Ovary 2-celled; ovules many in each cell;
stigma capitate.
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