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Diospyros
buxifolia (Blume) Hiern
Synonym
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Diospyros elegantissima
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Family
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Ebenaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam
– Kattuthuvara
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Flowering and fruiting period
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March-May
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Distribution
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Indo-Malesia
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Distribution in kerala
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Palakkad, Idukki,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Thrissur, Kozhikkode, Wayanad, Kannur,
Malappuram, Kasaragode
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Habitat
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Evergreen and
semi-evergreen forests
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Uses
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The heartwood is
heavy, very hard and brittle. It is used for poles and posts.
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Key
Botanical Characters :
Trees, to 30 m high,
bole buttressed; bark 5-6 mm thick, blackish-grey, mottled with white,
brittle; branchlets densely golden yellow hairy. Leaves simple, alternate,
bifarious, 1-4.5 x 0.6-2 cm, elliptic-ovate, ovate, ovate-oblong or
ovate-lanceolate, apex acute, base acute or cuneate,margin entire,
coriaceous; petiole 2-3 mm, slender, hispid; glabrous above except midrib and
pubescent beneath; lateral nerves 2-3 pairs, pinnate, faint, intercostae
obscure. Flowers unisexual, white. Male flowers: 2-3 mm, 1-4 together in
subsessile small axillary cymes; calyx densely fulvous.
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