| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Local Name | Chudala |
| Local Name 2 | Mulakunari |
| Common Name | Mulakunari |
| Habit | Evergreen tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, bark brown, smooth; young parts rusty, pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate, crowded at the tips of branchlets; petiole 7-15 mm long, stout, rusty pubescent when young; lamina 7.5-15 x 3-6 cm, elliptic, obovate or elliptic-obovate, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above, rusty tomentose beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-7 pairs, pinnate, flowers yellowish-green, in axillary and lateral lax pubescent panicles; fruit a drupe, globose, epicarp fleshy. |