| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Verbenaceae |
| Synonym | Vitex alata Willd., |
| Local Name | Myla |
| Local Name 2 | Mylellu |
| Trade Name | Milla |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Tree Seed | Fruit type: Drupe. Seed weight: 7,300 - 7,500 seeds/kg. Vernacular name: Myla, Mylallu, Milla (Malayalam) (Sasidharan, 2004),Mayilei, Mayila, Kadamanakku (Gamble, 1922), Maila (Bose et al., 1998) (Tamil) Flowering season: April to August (Bourdillon, 1908; Bose et al., 1998). Fruiting season: June to September (Bourdillon, 1908; Bose et al., 1998). Germination type: Hypogeal Germination percentage: 20 to 30 for untreated and 66% for treated seeds. Method of propagation: By seeds |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark greyish-yellow, scaly; blaze yellow; branchlets lenticellate, minutely tomentose. Leaves compound, trifoliate, opposite, estipulate; rachis 35-60 mm long, slender, pubescent, winged in sapling leaves, wings auriculate at base; leaflets 3-5, sessile; lamina 6-18 x 2-5 cm, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, base cuneate or acute, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above and pubescent or glabrescent along the nerves below, flowers white, tinged with blue, in terminal panicles, fruit a drupe, 5 x 5 mm, smooth, globose, glabrous, blue, seeds 4, obovate. |
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