| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Avicenniaceae |
| Local Name | Orei |
| Local Name 2 | Uppatti |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, to 8 m high; much branched with occasional stilt roots; pneumatophores numerous, straight, cylindrical, often forked with blunt tips; bark smooth, brownish-grey; branchlets terete, glabrous, pale brown, nodes swollen. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, estipulate; petiole 10-18 mm long, stout, with a basal groove; lamina 3-10 x 2.5-5 cm, ovate, elliptic-obovate; base cuneate; apex obtuse; margin entire, glabrous above, silvery white tomentose beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 7-10 pairs; flowers bisexual, yellow, fruit a capsule 5 x 3.5 cm, mango-shaped, yellowish-green, flattened, apex acute with persistent stylar beak, pericarp thick, coriaceous, silvery tomentose; seed one. |