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Diospyros toposia Buch.-Ham.
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Previous name used in the website: Diospyros racemosa
Family name: EBENACEAE
English name: Available soon
Sinhala name: Kaha kala (කහ කෑල)
Kaluwella (කළුවැල්ල)
Tamil name: Vellai Thoverii
Sanskrit name: Available soon
Conservation status: VU - Vulnerable - NRL - 2020
Description: Tree up to 20 m high and 40 cm diam. with black or dark greyish brown bark. Leaves alternate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, glossy, elliptic to oblong to lanceolate or ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, base acute or rounded. Male inflorescence in axil of caducous bract or leaf, in the simplest case a cyme of 3 flowers, in more complex ones the dichotomy is repeated, c. 12 flowers, yellow,fragrant. Female flowers solitary or cymose on the lower part of young shoots in axil of small bract or leaf, corolla yellowish white. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid to subglobose, top flattened, yellowish, smooth, covered with very short brown hairs.
Native Distribution Status: Native
Edible parts: Available soon
Treatment for: Available soon
Parts used in Treatment: Available soon
Related Medical Properties: Available soon
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