| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Synonym | Machilus macrantha Nees |
| Local Name | Ooravu |
| Local Name 2 | Kulamavu |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Tree Seed | Fruit type: Berry. Seed weight: 2,000 seeds/kg (Rai,1999; Chacko et al., 2002). Vernacular name: Ooravu, Kula mavu (Malayalam) (Sasidharan, 2004), Kolamavu, Kolarmavu (Tamil) (Chacko et al., 2002). Flowering season: November to January. February to March (Bose et al., 1998). Fruiting season: February to March (Rai, 1999 Chacko et al., 2002). May to June (Bose et al., 1998). Germination type: Epigeal (Chacko et al., 2002). Germination percentage: Up to 80 (Rai,1999; Chacko et al., 2002). Method of propagation: By seeds |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, bark surface pale brown, mottled with dark blotches, scurfy and thinly scaly, rough, exfoliations small, brittle; blaze pinkish; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tip of branchlets, estipulate; petiole 15-40 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 6.5-20 x 3.7-10 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, base oblique or acute, apex obtuse or obtusely acute, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent, flowers bisexual, 10-12 mm across, pale yellow, in panicles from upper axils and terminal; fruit a berry 15-18 mm across, globose, green with white specks, aromatic, epicarp red when ripe; seed one, globose. |
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