Informative. On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:06 PM, raman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wild Guava is a medium sized deciduous tree, up to 20 m tall, the leaves > of which turn red in the cold season. It is the Kumbhi of Sanskrit writers, > and appear to have been so named on account of the hollow on the top of the > fruit giving it somewhat the appearance of a water-pot. Wild pigs are very > fond of the bark, and that it is used by hunters to attract them. An > astringent gum exudes from the fruit and stem, and the bark is made into > coarse cordage. The Tamil name Puta-tanni-maram signifies †water- > bark-tree,†in allusion to the exudation trickling down the bark in dry > weather. Bark surface flaking in thin strips, fissured, dark grey; crown > spreading. Leaves arranged spirally, often clustered at the apices of > twigs, simple, broadly obovate, tapering at base, margin toothed, stipules > small, caducous. Flowers in an erect raceme at the end of branches. Flowers > are large, white. Sepals are 4, petals 4, free. Stamens are many, connate > at base; disk annular; ovary inferior, 4-5-locular with many ovules in 2 > rows per cell, style 1. Fruit a large, many-seeded drupe, globose to > depressed globose, crowned by the persistent sepals. Seedling with hypogeal > germination; cotyledons absent (seed containing a swollen hypocotyl); shoot > with scales at the first few nodes. > > Raman > -- Dr. Satish Kumar Chile
