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Plant Description
It is a small evergreen tree with slender drooping branches, the sapwood is white and odorless, the heartwood yellowish brown and strongly scented. Leaves elliptic lanceolate, sub-acute petioles 1-1.3 cm long slender. The flowers, 5-10 mm in diameter, are mildly fragrant and purple to brownish in colour. The fruit appears within about 3-4 weeks of flowering and ripens in another 6 to 8 weeks. The fruit is globose drupe, 3-5 mm in diameter, smooth, fleshy and purple to blackish in colour. These are acrid in taste and few birds or animals eat them. The seed inside the fleshy endocarp is tiny 6000 of them make a kilogram.
Flowering & Fruiting Period: February-March and then again during August-September.
*Description source: Flora of Savantwadi