Lovely depiction of all features On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:30 PM, raman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wood apple is an erect, slow-growing tree with a few upward-reaching > branches bending outward near the summit where they are subdivided into > slender branchlets drooping at the tips. The bark is ridged, fissured and > scaly and there are sharp spines 3/4 to 2 in long on some of the zigzag > twigs. The deciduous, alternate leaves, 3 to 5 in long, dark-green, > leathery, often minutely toothed, blunt or notched at the apex, are dotted > with oil glands and slightly lemon-scented when crushed. Yellowish green > flowers, tinged with red, 1/2 in across, are borne in small, loose, > terminal or lateral panicles. The tree is mostly known for its hard woody > fruit, size of a tennis ball, round to oval in shape. The pulp is brown, > mealy, odorous, resinous, astringent, acid or sweetish, with numerous > small, white seeds scattered through it. > > Raman > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
