| Type | Indigenous |
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| Family | Loganiaceae |
| Local Name | Kanjiram |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Tree Seed | Fruit type: Berry. Seed weight: 600 to 846 seeds/kg (FRI, 1985; Chacko et al., 2002). Vernacular name: Kanjiram (Malayalam) (Sasidharan, 2004), Yetti, Eddi, Kanchurai (Tamil), Kanjira (Kannada), Bailewa, Chibbinge (Chacko et al., 2002), Kuchla, (Hindi) (Bose et al., 1998). Flowering season: March-May (Bourdillon, 1908), February to April (Bose et al., 1998). Fruiting season: Ripen in cold and hot season from December to June, November to March (Bourdillon, 1908). December to June (Sen Gupta, 1937; Kumar and Bhanja, 1992; Chacko et al., 2002). Germination type: Epigeal (Chacko et al., 2002). Germination percentage: 13 to 52 (Chacko et al., 2002). Method of propagation: By seeds |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark thin, yellowish or blackish-grey, smooth or scurfy with lenticels; blaze creamy yellow. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 5-13 mm, slender, glabrous; lamina 5-14 x 2-9 cm, elliptic, broadly elliptic or elliptic-ovate, base acute to attenuate, apex acute or obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, shiny, coriaceous; 3-5 nerved from base, prominent, glabrous, flowers greenish-white, in terminal sessile cymes, fruit a berry, 3-5 cm across, globose, yellowish-red or orange, glabrous; seeds 3 or 4, orbicular, flat, shiny, greenish-white, coin like, 2-2.5 cm diameter. |
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