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Botanical Name: Neolamarckia cadamba
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Family: Rubiaceae
Common Name: कदंब
Etymology - Genus: Named for Jean Baptiste de Monet Lamarck, French naturalist.
Etymology - Species: From Sanskrit kadamba, name for this plant
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: Pune
Description: Large spreading tree, branches spread almost 90 degree to main stem, arranged in tiers, giving a characteristic profile to the tree. Rough, dark 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. Very elegant leaf profile.Tightly packed flowers, size of a tennis ball are bourn all over a tree during a bloom.Flowers are orange white with pleasant fragrance.Fruits are aggregation of capsules, edible.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Tree
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Rough, uneven, flaky
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Large spreading tree, branches spread almost 90 degree to main stem, arranged in tiers, giving a characteristic profile to the tree. Rough, dark 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: Round
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Acute
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Glabrous ovate leaf. Very elegant leaf profile.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Capitate
Bract: Ebracteate
Inflorescence Description: Tightly packed flowers, size of a tennis ball are bourn all over a tree during a bloom.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Epigynous
Aestivation: Valvate
Flower Description: Flowers are orange white 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
Floral Parts Description:
Fruit type: Aggregate of capsules
Fruit type Description: Fruits are aggregation of capsules, edible.
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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Germination %: Very easy to germinate
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