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Differs from Cornus myxa in the narrower and thinner leaves, which are not subcordate at the base and smaller drupes. Reported from parts of Kashmir (Mirpur, fide R. R. Stewart (Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 583.1972) Punjab, Sind & Baluchistan. More common from the Chenab eastward.
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The seeds contain oil, the fruit is used for medicine, and the wood is used for house construction and farm tools.
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Description
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A polygamo-dioecious tree up to 15 m tall. Branchlets pubescent. Leaves 5-8 x 1.5-3.0 cm, elliptic-ovate to obovate, pubescent, especially on the under-surface, margin sometimes undulate, base cuneate to oblique or rounded. Petiole up to 3.0 cm long. Flowers in dichotomous cymes, ebracteate. Male flowers: Calyx c. 2.5 mm long, shallowly 5-lobed, hairy to the inside. Corolla campanulate, c. 6 mm long, tube about equalling the limb, dense hairy within. Lobes oblanceolate or broadly so, recurved. Filaments c. 4.5 mm, lower half hairy and adnate to tube; anthers 2.5-3 mm long; bisexual flowers: similar but larger than male flowers. Calyx 5-6 mm long, campanulate, accrescent and up to 10 mm in fruit. Filaments c. 2 mm long. Style branched. Drupe up to 15 mm broad, yellowish-red.
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Description
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Trees 3-4(-20) m tall. Petiole 2-5 cm; leaf blade ovate to broadly ovate or elliptic, 6-13 × 4-9 cm, sparsely pubescent or glabrous, base rounded to broadly cuneate, margin usually subundulate to undulate dentate, rarely entire, apex obtuse to mucronate. Inflorescences terminating leafy lateral branches, dichotomously branched into corymbose cymes, widely spaced, 5-8 cm wide. Flowers dimorphic, sessile. Calyx campanulate, 5-6 mm, 5-lobed; lobes unequal, triangular. Corolla white, ca. as long as calyx; lobes shorter than tube, margin somewhat undulate. Filaments of staminate flowers ca. 3.5 mm, filaments of bisexual flowers 1-2 mm. Rudimentary pistil globose. Style united portion 1-1.5 mm, first branches ca. 1 mm, second branches 2-3 mm; stigma spatulate. Drupes yellow or reddish, subglobose, 1-1.5 cm in diam., with sticky mesocarp, surrounded by persistent calyx. Fl. Feb-Apr, fr. Jun-Aug. 2n = 48, 50.
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Distribution
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W. Asia, Subtropical Himalaya, India, Ceylon, east to China and S. Japan, Australia, sometimes cultivated.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Pakistan, Kashmir, India, S. China, Taiwan, Indo-China, New Caledonia & N.E. Australia.
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Elevation Range
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200-1400 m
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: March-April.
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Habitat & Distribution
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Open woods on slopes, mountain streamsides. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Taiwan, SE Xizang, Yunnan [Cambodia, N India, Indonesia, Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Kashmir, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam; NE Australia, Pacific Islands]
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Synonym
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Varronia sinensis Loureiro.
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Cordia dichotoma
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Cordia dichotoma is a species of flowering tree in the borage family, Boraginaceae, that is native to the Indomalayan realm, northern Australia, and western Melanesia.[1]
Common names include fragrant manjack, snotty gobbles, cummingcordia, glue berry, anonang, pink pearl, bird lime tree, and Indian cherry in English; booch, लसोड़ा (lasoda), or gunda in Hindi; ਨਸੂੜੇ (lasoore) in Punjabi lasura in Nepali; गुंदा gunda in Gujarati; भोकर bhokar in Marathi; and 破布子 (phoà-pò·-chí), 樹子仔, or 樹子; ಚಳ್ಳೆ ಹಣ್ಣು challe hannu in Kannada; బంకనక్కర Bankanakkera in Telugu, nunang in Malay and Minangkabau, nonang in Maranao, and anúnang in Cebuano.[2]
Description
Cordia dichotoma is a small to moderate-sized deciduous tree with a short bole and spreading crown. The stem bark is greyish brown, smooth or longitudinally wrinkled. Flowers are short-stalked, bisexual, white in colour which open only at night. The fruit is a yellow or pinkish-yellow shining globose which turns black on ripening and the pulp gets viscid.
Habitat and range
Cordia dichotoma is native to China (Fujian, Guangdong Guangxi, Guizhou, southeast Tibet, and Yunnan) the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland) and New Caledonia.[1] It is a tree of tropical and subtropical regions. It is found in a variety of forests ranging from the dry deciduous forests of Rajasthan to the moist deciduous forests of Western Ghats and tidal forests in Myanmar.
Ecology
The larvae of the butterfly Arhopala micale feed on leaves of C. dichotoma.
Uses
The immature fruits are pickled (see South Asian pickles) and are also used as a vegetable fodder. The leaves also yield good fodder. The seed kernel has medicinal properties. It is often cultivated for its fruits throughout the range of its natural distribution.
Symbolism
It is the symbol of Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province in Thailand.
Cordia dichotoma foliage.
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Cordia dichotoma: Brief Summary
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Cordia dichotoma is a species of flowering tree in the borage family, Boraginaceae, that is native to the Indomalayan realm, northern Australia, and western Melanesia.
Common names include fragrant manjack, snotty gobbles, cummingcordia, glue berry, anonang, pink pearl, bird lime tree, and Indian cherry in English; booch, लसोड़ा (lasoda), or gunda in Hindi; ਨਸੂੜੇ (lasoore) in Punjabi lasura in Nepali; गुंदा gunda in Gujarati; भोकर bhokar in Marathi; and 破布子 (phoà-pò·-chí), 樹子仔, or 樹子; ಚಳ್ಳೆ ಹಣ್ಣು challe hannu in Kannada; బంకనక్కర Bankanakkera in Telugu, nunang in Malay and Minangkabau, nonang in Maranao, and anúnang in Cebuano.
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