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Diospyros candolleana Wight.
Synonym
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Diospyros canarica Bedd.
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Family
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Ebenaceae
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Local name
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English- Cashmir Tree
Malayalam- Karimaram
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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April-March
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Distribution
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Endemic
to Peninsular India
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Distribution
in kerala
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Palakkad, Kottayam, Kasaragode, Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikkode, Wayanad, Thrissur.
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Habitat
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Evergreen, semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests.
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IUCN Status
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Vulnerable
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Endemic
/Exotic
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Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.
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Uses
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Use extensively
in timber production. Timber is hard, and used in building constructions. A
decoction of root-bark is used in rheumatism and swellings in traditional
medicine.
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Key botanical characters:
Dioecious trees, to 15 m high, bark 5-6 mm thick, greenish-black, smooth;
young shoots pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious, slender,
pinnate, faint, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers unisexual, pale
yellow; male flowers: fascicles; calyx 5 mm long, tomentose; lobes 5, ovate,
acute or subobtuse; corolla urceolate, Fruit a berry, long, conical, green; calyx flat or
shallowly cupuliform, the lobes triangular with reflexed margins; seeds 3-4,
usually compressed; endosperm ruminate.
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