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Botanical Name: Adina cordifolia
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Family: Rubiaceae
Common Name: हेदू, हळदु
Etymology - Genus: hal-DEE-na - Latinized form of the Indian vernacular name for this plant, haldu.
Etymology - Species: Heart-shaped leaf
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: Shivaji Nagar
Description: Large spreading tree with rough, brown-black flaky bark.Simple leaf, Opposite-Decussate. Small leaves grow out of a bud formed by the stipule, bud falls off leaving behind a characteristic interpetiolar ring.Glabrous ovate leaf.Tightly packed flowers, size of a table tennis ball are bourn all over a tree during a bloom.Flowers are greenish yellow with pleasant fragrance.Dark, hard fruiting heads appear after flowering. Fruits are aggregation of capsules. Fruits are not edible.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Tree
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Rough, flaky
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Large spreading tree with rough, brown-black flaky bark.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Interpetiolar
Leaf Type: Simple
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Simple leaf, Opposite-Decussate. Small leaves grow out of a bud formed by the stipule, bud falls off leaving behind a characteristic interpetiolar ring.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Ovate
Lamina Bases: Cordate
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Obtuse
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Glabrous ovate leaf.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Capitate
Bract: Ebracteate
Inflorescence Description: Tightly packed flowers, size of a table tennis ball are bourn all over a tree during a bloom.
Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Epigynous
Aestivation: Valvate
Flower Description: Flowers are greenish yellow with pleasant fragrance.
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Actinomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance: Caducous
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement: Cone shaped
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther:
Androecium Length of filament: equal
Androecium Union of Stamens: Epipetalous
Androecium Number of Stamens: 5
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels: Bicarpellary
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 2
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Fruit type: Aggregate of capsules
Fruit type Description: Dark, hard fruiting heads appear after flowering. Fruits are aggregation of capsules. Fruits are not edible.
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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