| Type | Indigenous |
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| Family | Fabaceae |
| Local Name | Veeti |
| Local Name 2 | Eeti |
| Local Name 3 | Kariveeti |
| Trade Name | Rosewood |
| Common Name | Veeti |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Tree Seed | Fruit type: Pod. Seed weight: 21,000 to 40,000 seeds/kg (Chacko et al., 2002). Vernacular name: Veeti, Eetti (Malayalam); Eetti, Iruppottu thodagathi (Tamil), Bilayata shisham(Hindi), Todagatti, Karimbeetti (Kannada) (Chacko et al., 2002). Flowering season: April (North and Central India) January-February (Kerala), April-May (drier parts of Maharashtra). Fruiting season: Ripens in December to May (Chacko et al., 2002). Germination type: Epigeous(Chacko et al., 2002). Germination percentage: 80 (Chacko et al., 2002). Method of propagation: Tissue culture is successful. |
| Botanical Features | Deciduous trees, bark 10-15 mm thick, grey, smooth with short irregular cracks, exfoliating in thin fibrous longitudinal flakes; blaze yellow, turning to yellow-brown. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate; stipules small, lateral, deciduous; rachis 7.5-20.5 cm, slender, pulvinate, glabrous; leaflets 3-9, alternate, exstipe llate; petiolule upto 10 mm, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 2.5-10 x 2.5-10 cm, orbicular, base acute or very rarely truncate, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; flowers bisexual, white, in short corymbose panicles from the axils of fallen leaves of previous years shoot; fruit a pod, 5-7.5 x 1.5-1.8 cm, oblong-lanceolate, tip obtuse, distinctly marked in the place of seeds, but not wrinkled, indehiscent; seeds 1-4, reniform, brown. |
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