Ever possible beautiful shots of Sapota tree On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:25 PM, raman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chikoo is a fairly slow-growing, long-lived tree, upright and elegant, > distinctly pyramidal when young. It grows up to to 18 m high in the open > but reaching 30 m when crowded in a forest. It is strong and > wind-resistant, rich in white, gummy latex. Its leaves are highly > ornamental, evergreen, glossy, alternate, spirally clustered at the tips of > the forked twigs; elliptic, pointed at both ends, firm, 7.5-11.25 cm long > and 2.5-4 cm wide. Flowers are small and bell-like, with 3 brown-hairy > outer sepals and 3 inner sepals enclosing the pale-green corolla and 6 > stamens. They are borne on slender stalks at the leaf bases. The fruit may > be nearly round, oblate, oval, ellipsoidal, or conical; varies from 2 to 4 > in 5-10 cm in width. When immature it is hard, gummy and very astringent. > Though smooth-skinned it is coated with a sandy brown scurf until fully > ripe. The flesh ranges in color from yellowish to light- or dark-brown or > sometimes reddish-brown; may be coarse and somewhat grainy or smooth; > becomes soft and very juicy, with a sweet flavor resembling that of a pear. > Some fruits are seedless, but normally there may be from 3 to 12 seeds > which are easily removed as they are loosely held in a whorl of slots in > the center of the fruit. They are brown or black, with one white margin; > hard, glossy; long-oval, flat, with usually a distinct curved hook on one > margin; and about 2 cm long. > > Raman > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
