Kingdom: Plantae Order: Saxifragales Family: Hamamelidaceae Genus: Liquidambar Species: Liquidambar formosana Common name: Formosa sweet gum Origin: China Description: Formosa Sweet gum has a wide, pyramidal shape when young but eventually grows to a rounded or irregular form. Young specimens may vary in form and be somewhat irregular. It has a more rounded crown than native Sweet…
Kingdom: Plantae Order: Magnoliales Family: Magnoliaceae Genus: Magnolia Species: Magnolia grandiflora Common name: Laurel magnolia, Life tree, Bari champa, Him champa Origin: U.S.A. Description: Magnolia is a large, broad-leafed evergreen tree. Its trunk is typically straight and erect with spreading branches that form a dense, broadly pyramidal crown. The evergreen leaves are leathery and dark glossy green…
Kingdom: Plantae Order: Ericales Family: Theaceae Genus: Schima Species: Schima wallichi Common name: Needle wood, Chialuni Origin: India Description: Leaves oblong, lanceolate, elliptic- oblong or ovate to obovate, cuneate to round at base, acute to short acuminate at apex. Flowers white, fragrant, narrowly oblong, retuse. Economic Importance: Wood used for building purposes, bridges, planking canoes, agricultural implements,…
Kingdom: Plantae Order: Malpighiales Family: Putranjivaceae Genus: Putranjiva Species: Putranjiva roxburghii Common name: Child- life tree Origin: India Description: Evergreen tree, with pendent branches, grey bark, leaves are long, elliptic- oblong to ovate –lanceolate, dark-green, shining, flowers small, make in dense rounded clusters, yellowish, femal ,solitary or 2-3 together, green. Economic Importance: Wood used for house- building,…
Kingdom: Plantae Order: Magnoliales Family: Magnoliaceae Genus: Michelia Species: M. champaca ; M. oblonga Common name: Champa Origin: India Description: An evergreen tree. It is best known and cultivated for its strongly fragrant yellow or white flowers. Economic Importance: M . champaca: Wood used for posts, boards, veneers, furniture, decorative fittings, carriage and ship – building, and…
Kingdom: Plantae Order: Fabales Family: Papilionaceae Genus: Dalbergia Species: Dalbergia latifolia Common name: Indian Rosewood Origin: India Description: Rosewood is a large deciduous or nearly evergreen tree with a cylindrical, fairly straight bole and a broad rounded crown. The bark is fairly thin, grey, with irregular short cracks, exfoliated and thin, fibrous, longitudinal flakes, leaves are imparipinnate, base…
Kingdom: Plantae Order: Malpighiales Family: Euphorbiaceae Genus: Trewia Species: Trewia nudiflora Common name: Gutel, khamara Origin: India Description: It is a small to large sized deciduous tree with spreading branches. Leaves opposite, long petioled, broadly ovate, cordate or rounded base, acuminate, female flowers on long peduncles, styles yellow. Fruit is a globose berry. Economic Importance: The wood is even…
Kingdom : Plantae Division : Angiospermae Class : Dicotyledonae Order : Geraniales Family: Euphorbiaceae Genus: Emblica Species: Emblica officinalis Common name: Amla Origin: India Description: The tree is small to medium sized, reaching 8 to 18 m in height, with crooked trunk and spreading branches. The leaves simple, sub-sessile and closely set along branchlets, light green, resembling…