Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Vatica chinensis L.

 

Family: Dipterocarpaceae

Synonym: Pteranthera chinensis (L.) Blume

Vernacular name: Adakkapine, Cherupiney, Payinipasa

Habit: Tree

Habitat: Along streams of evergreen forests.

Distribution: Asia: India, Sri Lanka.

Flowering and fruiting: March-June

Key identification features: South-Indian Vatica is an evergreen tree, with bark pale green, smooth; exudation resinous. Flowers are bisexual, white, broen in leaf-axils, in spreading panicles. Fruit is a capsule, scaly, nearly spherical shortly pointed with 3 obscure furrows, finely velvet-hairy.

Uses: Wood is durable in moist and water immersions also, used in building construction. Resin used in folk medicine and manufacturing varnishes.



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