| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Local Name | Mulakunari |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark yellowish-brown, lenticellate, vertically furrowed; blaze yellow; branchlets slender, smooth, glabrous, lenticellate. Apical bud partly minutely seriaceous. Leaves simple, alternate, crowded near the tips of branchlets, estipulate; petiole 6-25 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 14-17 × 8-11 cm, obovate, elliptic-obovate or oblong, base acute or cuneate, apex round, obtuse or emarginate or subacute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, shining above, glaucous beneath, surface areolate; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, pinnate, prominent, flowers bisexual, small, yellowish-green, in slender lax axillary panicles longer than leaves; fruit a berry, 20-25 mm long, ellipsoid, dark red; seed oblong-globular. |