Botanical Name: Dalbergia latifolia Roxb.
Tamil Name: Vanni
Sanskrit Name: Thodagathi
English Name: Indian Rose wood
M. Subramanian
Project Officer
C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre
Chennai
Habitat
Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark 10-15 mm thick, grey, smooth with short irregular cracks, exfoliating in thin fibrous longitudinal flakes; blaze yellow, turning to yellow-brown. Leaves impair pinnate, rarely 1-foliate, lternate; stipules small, lateral, deciduous; rachis 7.5-20.5 cm,slender, pulvinate, glabrous; leaflets 3-9, alternate, exstipe llate;…