Family: Burseraceae
Synonym: Garuga kenghar Buch.-Ham., Garuga pharhad Buch.-Ham.
Vernacular name: Annakkara, Eechakkara, Kattukalasam, Kattunelli, Kosramba
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
Distribution: Indo-Malesia
Flowering and Fruiting: January-August
Key identification features: Deciduous trees with bark grey or brown, shallowly furrowed. Leaves crowded at branchlet tips. Flowers yellow, in axillary panicles; calyx tomentose; petals thickened and inflexed. Fruit a drupe, greenish-yellow, horned; seed one, with a membranous wing.
Uses: Fruit are eaten raw, boiled or pickled. The tree is used as a support for growing pepper
plants. The bark is a source of tannins.
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