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Botanical Name: Terminalia catappa
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Family: Combretaceae
Common Name: खोटा बदाम
Etymology - Genus: From the Latin terminus (end), referring to the leaves at the end of the shoots
Etymology - Species: From the Malayan name for the Indian Almond
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Foreign
Location: India
Description: Large deciduous tree with branches arranged in circular layers. Typical tree profile can be identified even from a distance.Simple leaves with terminal - leaves arranged at the end of the branch. During fall, leaves turn crimson read before falling on ground.Large leaf size. Leaves are broad at the end and narrow at the base.Almost sessile flowers are tightly arranged on a peduncle in circular layers. Upper flowers of the spike are male, lower flowers are bisexual.Flowers are small greenish-with white very strong odour.Flowers don’t have petals. 10 Stamens are arranged in two rows.Fruits are egg shaped with edges.Should not be planed in Indian subcontinent.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Tree
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Greyish, brown with vertical stretchmarks.
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Large deciduous tree with branches arranged in circular layers. Typical tree profile can be identified even from a distance.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Simple
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Simple leaves with terminal - leaves arranged at the end of the branch. During fall, leaves turn crimson read before falling on ground.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Oblong
Lamina Bases: Cuneate
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Rounded apice
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Large leaf size. Leaves are broad at the end and narrow at the base.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Raceme
Bract: Ebracteate
Inflorescence Description: Almost sessile flowers are tightly arranged on a peduncle in circular layers. Upper flowers of the spike are male, lower flowers are bisexual.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Incomplete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Valvate
Flower Description: Flowers are small greenish-with white very strong odour.
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Actinomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance: Caducous
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement: absent
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 0
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther: Dorsifixed
Androecium Length of filament: equal
Androecium Union of Stamens: Polyandrous
Androecium Number of Stamens: 10
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels:
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 1
Floral Parts Description: Flowers don’t have petals. 10 Stamens are arranged in two rows.
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Fruit type: Drupe
Fruit type Description: Fruits are egg shaped with edges.
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: -
Dispersion Method: -
Preprocessing for germination: -
Germination time: -
Seed shelf life: -
Germination %: -
Seed Description: Should not be planed in Indian subcontinent.
