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Olea dioica Roxb.

Synonym: Olea laevis Stokes, Tetrapilus dioicus (Roxb.) L.A.S.Johnson

OLEACEAE

Local Names : കരിവെട്ടി.

Flowering Period : November to April.

Distribution : Native of India

Uses: Avenue Tree, Anti Rheumatic. 

Exotic : No

 Trees, bark grey or brown, rough, shallowly vertically grooved. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic-oblong or elliptic lanceolate, margin serrate, pink when young. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, creamy-white, small, in panicles, axillary or from leafless nodes, male panicles larger and denser than hermaphrodite. Calyx 4 teethed. Corolla lobes 4, shorter than the tube. Stamens 2, included. Ovary 2-celled, superior; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe, ellipsoid, blue.

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