Manilkara hexandra (Roxb.) Dubard

Type
Indigenous
Family
Sapotaceae
Synonym
Mimusops hexandra Roxb.
Local Name
Pazhamunpala
Local Name 2
Khrini
Habit
Small sized tree
Botanical Features

Evergreen trees, bark blackish-grey, longitudinally fissured and cracked, rough; blaze crimson red; exudation milky; bole straight. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 8-20 mm, slender, slightly grooved above, glabrous; lamina 5-10 x 3-4.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-obovate, obovate or ovate-oblong; base acute; apex obtuse or emarginate; margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-20 pairs, closely pinnate, slender, midrib raised below; flowers white, 1 or 2 axillary; fruit a berry, ellipsoid, reddish-yellow; seed usually one.

Habit
Leaf
Flower