Calophyllum inophyllum L.

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Family : CLUSIACEAE/GUTTIFERAE

Synonym : Calophyllum blumei Wight

Common Names : Pinna, Punna, Surampunna, Alexandrian laurel, Beauty Leaf, Dilo oil tree, Indian laurel, Oil-nut Tree, Tamanu

Flowering Period : December – January

Distribution : Paleotropics

Habitat : In plains along the banks of rivers and mangrove forests, also planted in the parks and roadsides

Uses : Biodiseal, ornamental, timber yielding, source of oil for lamp

Key Characters :

Tree to 20 m tall; bark smooth or with boat-shaped fissures, brown to pale grey; exudate milky or yellow. Leaves broadly elliptic-oblong or obovate. Racemes axillary. Flowers polygamous, white, fragrant. Sepals 4, reflexed. Petals usually 4, obovate to elliptic, reflexed. Stamens numerous; filaments connate, into 4-6 bundles, cream coloured. Ovary globose-depressed; stigmas peltate. Drupes globose to obovoid.