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Muntingia calabura
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Family:
ELAEOCARPACEAE
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Citation: Muntingia calabura L., Sp. Pl. 509. 1753; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 54. 1982; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 90. 1990; S.K. Murti in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 570. 1993; M. Reema et al. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 505. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 146. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 175. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Pancharappazham
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Bird's cherry, Cotton Candy berry, Calabur, Jam tree, Manzanil
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Description:
Trees, to 7 m high; branches spreading; branchlets densely villous, glandular-pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules 1 or [2 with 1 reduced], 5 mm long, lateral, filiform, hairy; petiole 5 mm long; lamina 6-11 x 2-4 cm, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, base obliquely subcordate, apex acuminate, margin serrate, chartaceous, glandular hairy above, woolly beneath; lateral nerves 3-5 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 1.5-3 cm across, white rarely pink; pedicels 2-2.5 cm long; sepals 5, 1.5 cm long, lanceolate, valvate, shortly connate at base, densely pubescent; petals 5, thin, ovate, obovate or suborbicular, shortly clawed, entire, imbricate, crumpled in bud; intrastaminal disc annular, bearing a ring of hairs on the exterior margin; stamens many, ca. 1 cm long; filaments filiform; ovary superior, 5-6 mm long, ellipsoid, 5-celled, ovules many; styles short; stigmas capitate, 5-grooved. Fruit a berry, 1-1.5 cm across, red or yellow, subglobular; seeds many, obovoid-ellipsoid, many.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as ornamental plant
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Distribution:
Cultivated in India, Native of Tropical America and West Indies
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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
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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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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