Thanks for nice photographs and useful information Raman ji
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM, raman <[email protected]> wrote: > Suicide tree is a tree native to India and other parts of S. Asia. It > grows preferentially in coastal salt swamps and in marshy areas. It grows > wild along the coast in many parts of Western Ghats and has been grown as a > hedge between home compounds. It yields a potent poison, often used for > suicide or murder. Flower are white, showy, star-shaped, 5-7 cm, with a > small yellow center. Leaves are 12-30 cm long, oval, dark green and glossy, > held in dense spirals at the tips of the twigs. The fruit, when still > green, looks like a small mango, with a green fibrous shell enclosing an > ovoid kernel measuring approximately 2 cm × 1.5 cm and consisting of two > cross-matching white fleshy halves. On exposure to air, the white kernel > turns violet, then dark grey, and ultimately brown, or black. The plant as > a whole yields a milky, white latex. Cerbera odollam bears a close > resemblance to the Oleander bush, another highly toxic plant from the same > family. > > Raman >
