Dear Garg ji. According to the revision by Kostermans, in Gard. Bull. Sing. 39: 180 (1986) this is Cassine albens. He gave the distribution on as Southern Tamil Nadu. Massive, but usually a short-boled tree, up to 25 m tall and 60 cm dbh, bark outside reddish, inside yellowish. Drupe on-celled, obovoid, red when ripe, succulent with soft thin crustaceous putamen. I am curious about the red fruit. I am looking forward for additional photos of the flowers and hopefully fruit.
This differs from C. glauca, which fruit is white, and narrowly ellipsoid with sharp tips. With best wishes, Robert Archer From: J.M. Garg [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 04 October 2013 10:01 AM To: efloraofindia Cc: Robert H. Archer; Nambiyath Balakrishnan; V.S. Ramachandran; M Swamy; Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy; C Kalidasa; Kabeer Althaf; Sasi Ramasamy; Udhaya taxa; Arthanar eeswaran; Vijayasankar Raman; Saraswathi B; [email protected]; Satish Phadke; Dr. Badri Narayanan T Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:166487] Fwd: Alagarkoil flora 230913 TBN 1 for id ? Cassine glauca for validation Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. Some earlier relevant feedback: I have never seen a Cassine glauca tree that big. The leaves and fruits look like the species mentioned. The apex of the leaf is typically bent like that shown in your picture. Flowers may help for concluding the ID Dr Satish Phadke Thanks for the id. Shall post pictures of flowers when I see them. It is undisturbed as it forms part of a sacred grove and therefore might have become a huge tree. Regards, Badri efi page on Elaeodendron glaucum<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/c/celastraceae/elaeodendron/elaeodendron-glaucum> (Syn: Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntze) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dr. Badri Narayanan T <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: 28 September 2013 11:08 Subject: [efloraofindia:166487] Fwd: Alagarkoil flora 230913 TBN 1 for id ? Cassine glauca for validation To: indiantreepix <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Dear friends, I am again sending this mail for validation. Regards, Badri ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Dr. Badri Narayanan T" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: 23 Sep 2013 20:55 Subject: Alagarkoil flora 230913 TBN 1 for id ? Cassina glauca for validation To: "indiantreepix" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Dear friends, Greetings from Madurai.! Please identify this plant details of which are as follows: Date :22.09.13 Location :Kasampatti sacred grove, Alagarkoil hill range Altitude :less than 500 ft Habitat :sacred grove Habit :tree Height :more than 50 ft Leaves :? serrated? dentate Flowers : Fruits :berry similar to neem, Local name :karukatchi Regards' Dr T. Badri Narayanan Ophthalmologist and Birder -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:indiantreepix%[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. 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