Family: Dilleniaceae
Synonym: Colbertia augusta (Roxb.) Wall., Dillenia augusta Roxb.
Vernacular name: Kattupunnakai, Kodapunna, Pattipunna, Vazhapunna, Naithekku
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Decidous forests, along hill areas
Distribution: India, Nepal, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri-Lanka.
Flowering and Fruiting: February-June
Key identification features: Tall deciduous trees. Bark greyish white, peeling off in flakes. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at twig ends; flowers yellow, fascicled on old leafless branches. Carpels globose, fleshy, enveloping with thickened sepals; seeds 1 or 2 per carpel.
Uses: Wood is good timber, moderately hard reddish grey and fairly durable. Flowers, fruits especially the fleshy calyx are eaten as vegetable
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