Ajanvruksha - Ovate-leaved ivory wood
Terminalia elliptica
Summary
Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Boraginales Family: Boraginaceae Genus: Ehretia
Species: Ehretia laevis
Scientific Name: Ehretia laevis (Rottler ex G. Don) Roxb.
Common names
English: ovate-leaved ivory wood
Hindi: भैरी bhairi, चामरोड़ chamror
Marathi: अजानवृक्ष ajaanvruksha, धतरंग dhatrang
Sanskrit चर्मवृक्ष charmavriksha
Description
Ehretia laevis is a small tree belonging to the Boraginaceae or borage family.
It is native tree of Asia, and found in China, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
A moderate-sized, deciduous tree with smooth, grey bark. Leaves 7-14 cm long, elliptic, obtuse or acuminate, entire, membraneous when young, hard when mature. Flowers white, small, in terminal or axillary, slender, usually one-sided cymes. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla-tube 2.5 cm long, petals 5, spreading. Stamens 5. Fruit a 0.5 cm across drupe, globose, depressed, red.
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