Nakshatra Vanam

Botanical Name: Spondias pinnata (L. f.) Kurz L.
Tamil Name: Pulima
Sanskrit Name: Amraatakah
English Name:Indian Hog Plum or Indian Wild Mango

M. Subramanian
Project Officer
C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre
Chennai

Habitat

Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark 15-25 mm thick, surface grey to pale brown, smooth, vertically striated; outer bark 1 mm thick, dead, corky; inner bark semi fibrous, pink, streaked with white; blaze pink; exudation colour less, gummy. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the end of branches, estipulate; rachis 25-45 cm, slender, glabrous, swollen at base; leaflets 5-21, opposite or sub-opposite; petiolule 2-8 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 4-23 x 2.5-10 cm, oblong, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base obtuse, sub-acute, oblique or round, apex acuminate or obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous or membranous; lateral nerves many, parallel, close, slender, prominent, connected by an intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate.

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