A moderate-sized or small tree in back mangroves zone; bark grey, soft and spongy. Leaves are fleshy and bright green. Flowers large and white. Fruit ball-shaped, large and green. Latex white, from any part of the plant.
Cerbera odollam Gaertn.
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Indonesian |
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Sinhala; Sinhalese |
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Tamil |
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Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Habit: Small tree; branchlets whorled with leaves crowded at the end.
Trunk & bark: Bark grey, soft and spongy. Trunk with prominent leaf scars.
Exudates: Latex white, abundant from any part of the plant.
Leaves: Leaves simple alternate, entire, lanceolate or oblanceolate, apex acute, base tapering, 12-30 x 3-7 cm, slightly coriaceous. Lateral veins and reticulate venation faintly raised on both surfaces; petiole 2 to 5 cm long.
Inflorescences or flowers: Inflorescences terminal paniculate cymes. Flowers large, regular, bisexual; calyx 5; corolla funnel-shaped, 5 lobed, white with a yellow eye at the mouth; stamens inserted in the middle of corolla tube; anthers oblong-lanceolate not adnate to the style apex.
Fruits: Fruits a fibrous drupe, rounded, smooth, green often tinged with pink when ripe.
Seeds /seedling: Seeds one or two, ovoid, compressed.
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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A back mangrove zone associated species along brackish waters. It also occurs in the inner reaches of tidal rivers where the salinity is typically very low.
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Paleotropics
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Cultivated as ornamental trees.
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Gentianales |
Family | Apocynaceae |
Genus | Cerbera |
Species | Cerbera odollam Gaertn. |