Bark
Bark is smooth, mottled with grey and white. Branches are horizontal, branchlets thick, with scars of fallen leaves, velvety when young.
Elaeocarpus tuberculatus
Syn. Elaeocarpus bilocularis
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
(LC)
Local name
- Warty Marble Tree (English)
- Badraksham (Malayalam)
- Dandale (Kannada)
Tree type
Evergreen
Deciduous
Family: Elaeocarpaceae
40m
Indicated uses
Medicinal
Edible
Ornamental
Avenue
Other
Flowering & fruiting
Flowering
Fruiting
Key characters
Leaves
Leaves are simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends.
Flower
Flowers are borne in axillary or extra-axillary racemes, rusty velvety. Flowers are white, cup-shaped, with frilly petals. Stamens are many, anthers aristate.
Fruit / Seeds
Fruit is elliptic-oblong, to 5 x 3 cm, with 1 seed which is deeply compressed and warty.
Did you know?
Its seeds resemble Rudraksha seeds in appearance, but unlike true Rudraksha seeds, they lack the characteristic central hole.
Distribution
W. & S. India, Andaman Islands, Bangladesh to Myanmar, Jawa