Flora of the Nilgiris

Habit : A medium sized tree.

Habitat and Distribution : Often in sholas. Hills above 900 m.  Indian subcontinent.

Indigenous Information : Bark yields fibre. Shoots a good medicine for pimples. Rope is made from bark. Bees forage on flowers. Cattle eat the leaves. Fruit eaten by monkeys and birds.

Field Tips : Fruit is hard when dry, edible, bitter to taste.

 

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Names:

English : Nilgiri Elm
Irula : Kallai, Kadalai, Padhwa
Tamil : Murungan, Kuriyaa

Flower:

In axillary racemes, white. Flowering from January - March.

Fruit :

A drupe, globose, ripening yellow, brownish black. Seed 1, globose. Fruiting from February-April.