Diospyros candolleana

Syn. Diospyros canarica

IUCN Red List Vulnerable (VU)

Local name

Kanara Ebony (English)
Nila viruksha (Sanskrit)

Tree type

Evergreen Deciduous

Family: Ebenaceae

15m

Indicated uses

Medicinal Edible Ornamental Avenue Other

Flowering & fruiting

Flowering Fruiting

Key characters

Bark

Bark 5-6 mm thick, greenish-black, smooth.

Leaves

Leaves are simple, alternate, leaf-stalk 8-14 mm long stout, grooved above, rugose, hairless; blade 7-15 x 2.5-5 cm, oblong or elliptic-oblong, base pointed, narrowed, wedge-shaped or blunt.

Flower

Flowers are unisexual, pale yellow; male flowers; 7-8 mm across, stalkless, in dense tawny woolly, female flowers; 1-1.2 cm across, stalkless, 2-10 in tawny woolly, in leaf-axils fascicles.

Fruit / Seeds

Fruit is a berry, 2.5 cm long, conical, green; sepal-cup flat or shallowly cupuliform, sepals triangular with reflexed margins.

Did you know?

Its Kannada vernacular name, Jagala ganti, literally translates to a person who frequently picks fights or quarrels.

Distribution

S. India