Family: Oleaceae

Common Name: कुंद

Etymology - Genus: Latinized form of Persian name

Etymology - Species: Many flowers

Ecosystem: Evergreen

Origin: Native

Location: Garden plant - Sidd Kulkarni/Kumavat

Description: This is a garden plant with spreading branches. Young branches are downy pubescent.Simple leaf, arranged opposite and superposed. Elliptic lamina, pointed tip, glabrous.White flowers are grouped into cymose inflorescence, arranged in almost every leaf node along the branch. Foliaceous bract - 3-4 leaves subtending the inflorescence.White flowers blossom in the day. Characteristic very pleasant fragrance.Free linear calyx with soft hairs. Petals fused into a narrow tube with 7-8 oblong, pointed, white petals. Two stamens are completely covered in the petal tube, yellow pollens. Length of style is variable, extended style makes stigma protrude out of petal tube or style is very short.Fruits are rarely observed. Branch cutting generally survives.

Root type: Taproot-Woody hard

Stem Appearance: Straggler

Stem Cross Section: Circular

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Root-Stem-Bark Description: This is a garden plant with spreading branches. Young branches are downy pubescent.

Leaf - Characters

Attachment: Petiolate

Stipules: Exstipulate

Leaf Type: Simple

Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral

Leaf Description: Simple leaf, arranged opposite and superposed. Elliptic lamina, pointed tip, glabrous.

Leaflet - Characters

Lamina: Elliptic

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Lamina Margins: Entire

Lamina Apices: Acute

Lamina Texture: Glabrous

Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate

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Fruit type Description: Fruits are rarely observed. Branch cutting generally survives.

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