| Type | Indigenous |
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| Family | Caesalpinioidae |
| Local Name | Puli |
| Local Name 2 | Valanpuli |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Tree Seed | Fruit type: Pod. Seed weight: 1450/kg; 700 to 2600 seeds/kg (Kindt et al.,1997; Chacko et al., 2002). Vernacular name: Kolpuli, Valanpuli, Puli (Malayalam), Pulia-maram (Tamil) (Chacko et al., 2002), Amlika, Tintiri (Sanskrit), Amli, Imli (Hindi ) (Bose et al., 1998). Flowering season: April - June / Sept - Oct, April to May (Bourdillon, 1908). Fruiting season: Appears in winter and ripens in spring (February - April) March to April (Luna, 1996; Chacko et al., 2002), February to March (Bourdillon, 1908). Germination type: Epigeous (Chacko et al., 2002). Germination percentage: 90 (Chacko et al., 2002). Method of propagation: By seeds or cuttings. |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark brown to brownish-black, rough with vertical fissures; branchlets warty, tomentose. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; stipules lateral, minute, cauducous; rachis 8-13 cm long, slender, glabrous, pulvinate; leaflets 20-34, opposite, sessile, lamina 1.5-4 x 0.4-1.3 cm, oblong, base unequal, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, lateral nerves 10-15 pairs, pinnate, slender, obscure, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerve; flowers bisexual, yellow with reddish-pink dots, fruit a pod, oblong, mesocarp pulpy, endocarp septate, leathery, indehiscent; seeds 3-8 or more, obovoid-orbicular, compressed, brown. |
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