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Mimusops elengi L.

Synonym: Manilkara parvifolia (R. Br.) Dubard, Mimusops javensis Burck.

SAPOTACEAE

Local Names : ഇലഞ്ഞി, Bullet wood, Spanish cherry, West India medlar.

Flowering Period : December to August.

Distribution : Indo-Malesia

Uses:   Sacred Indian Tree, Used to cure Tooth problems, Antihelminthic.

Exotic : No.

Evergreen trees, bark dark grey, cracked or fissured longitudinally. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, elliptic-oblong, margin entire. Flowers bisexual, white, fragrant, 1-3 in axillary fascicles. Calyx lobes 8 in 2 series of 4 each, valvate. Corolla; lobes 24, 3 series of 8 each. Stamens 8, alternating with pilose staminodes. Ovary, 6-8-celled; 1 ovule in each cell. Fruit a berry, yellow, ovoid. 


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