Diospyros malabarica
Summary
Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Angiospermae
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Ericales
Family: Ebenaceae
Genus: Diospyros
Species: Diospyros malabarica
Scientific Name: Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel.
Common names
English: Gaub tree, Malabar ebony, Black-and-white ebony
Hindi: Gaub गाब Marathi: Tembhurni, Temburi
Description
A middle sized evergreen tree with short trunk and spreading crown. Leaves generally glossy green, distichous, oblong or narrowly oblong, subacute or obtuse, coriaceous, smooth, glabrous. Flowers are tetramerous and white or green coloured; male flowers in clusters while female ones solitary. Fruit globose, about 2 inches across, yellowish when ripe. Generally found all over the Brahmaputra valley.
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