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Carissa carandas
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Family:
APOCYNACEAE
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Citation: Carissa carandas L., Mant. Pl. 1: 52. 1767; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3:630. 1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 804(565). 1923; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 188. 1999; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 420. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 517. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Karakka, Karanda, Kalachedi, Klavu
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Christ's thorn, Jasmine flowered carrisa, Karanda
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Description:
Armed shrubs, latex milky, dichotomously branched, spines forked at apex, 4.5 cm. Leaves 6 x 3.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex obtuse or emarginate, subcoriaceous; petiole to 0.5 cm. Cymes axillary and terminal, corymbose, puberulus; flowers white; calyx 5-lobed, 2.5 mm ,ovate, , aristate; corolla hypocrateriform, tube 2 cm, pubescent, twisted, 7 x 3 mm, ovate, pubescent; stamens 2.5 mm, obtuse, mucronate, sessile; ovary 1 mm, stigma fusiform, twisted. Berry 2.5 cm across, black when ripe.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-June
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests, also grown in homesteads
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White, Rose
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
Yes
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Chinnar, Choolatheruvu
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