| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Mimosoidae |
| Synonym | Mimosa odoratissima L.f. |
| Local Name | Kunnivaka |
| Local Name 2 | Pulivaka |
| Local Name 3 | Karivaka |
| Trade Name | Ceylon rosewood |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Tree Seed | Fruit type: Pods. Seed weight: 7,400 to 22,900 seeds/kg (Sen Gupta, 1937; Chacko et al., 2002). Vernacular name: Kunnivaka, Pulivaka (Malayalam) (Sasidharan, 2004); Karuvaka, Nellivaga (Malayalam) (Chacko et al., 2002); Bas, Kalasiris, (Hindi), Karu vagai, Chittalei vagai (Tamil) (Chacko et al., 2002). Flowering season: April to June (Troup, 1921). Fruiting season: January to March (Sen Gupta, 1937; Chacko et al., 2002). Germination type: Epigeous (Chacko et al., 2002). Germination percentage: 47 (FRI, 1983; Chacko et al., 2002). Method of propagation: Seedlings, stump planting. |
| Botanical Features | Deciduous trees; bark 10-15 mm thick, surface greyish-brown to dark brown, rough, irregularly cracked; blaze reddish-pink; branchlets blackish to brown, terete, 2-6 mm thick, initially tawny pubescent, finally glabrous. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipule free, lateral, caducous; rachis 20-30 cm long, stout, grooved above, spulvinate, brown pubescent, with a gland at the base, pinnae 2-8 pairs, opposite, even pinnate, 5-13 cm long, slender, puberulent, glands between the junctions of 1-2 distal pairs of pinnae; leaflets 14-40, opposite, even pinnate, estipellate, sessile; lamina 1.8-2.5 x 0.5-1.2 cm, oblong, base oblique, apex obtuse and apiculate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib subcentral to submarginal, lateral nerves 3-6 pairs, pinnate, flowers bisexual, white, in globose heads forming terminal panicles; fruit a pod 15-20 x 2.5-3.7 cm, flat, strap-shaped, with parallel margin or often some portion constricted, glabrous, often glossy, reddish-brown to dark brown, finely reticulately veined; seeds 6-12, oblong, compressed. |
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