NAKSHATRA VANAM

It is a small deciduous medium size tree, bark grey-brown, rough, irregularly flaking; blaze pink-red. Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious on short deciduous branch lets, flowers unisexual, 2-3 mm across, greenish-yellow, densely clustered in leaf axils; male flowers: sepals 6, oblanceolate, obtuse, stamens 3, female flowers: sepals 6, oblanceolate, obtuse; fruit a capsule 1.5-2.5 cm across, subglobose, dehiscing into 6 cocci, disc enlarged to give an appearance of fleshy yellowish-green, indehiscent berry, cultivated in gardens at home. It is native to Sri Lanka and parts of Burma and can grow in different soils.

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