Family:
Ebenaceae
Vernacular
names:
Kari, beediyila maram
Habit:
Tree
Habitat:
Dry Evergreen to Dry Deciduous Forests
Distribution:
India, Sri Lanka
Flowering
and fruiting: April--June
Key
identification features: Bark black or dark brown, very
thick, corky, deeply fissured vertically, flakes rectangular, leaves thick,
pale green, with soft hair, fruit, yellowish and fleshy with enlarged calyx
like brinjal.
Uses:
Leaves used to wrap tobacco dust to make beedis, hence called ‘Beedi mara’
locally. In the past, black trunk was used to make black keys of the piano.
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