Chrysophyllum roxburghii G.Don

 
  • Family : SAPOTACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Sapotaceae
  • Species : Chrysophyllum roxburghii
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Chrysophyllum roxburghii G.Don
  • Common name : Star Apple
  • Vernacular name : Hale, Bokale (Kan.)
  • Key identification features : A lofty evergreen tree. Bark is covered with dark lenticels. Branchlets are druping, young branchlets rufous-tomentose. Latex is white. Leaves are with rusty hairs below. Fruit is fleshy, fragrant, greenish yellow when ripe with sticky latex and is edible.
  • Habit : Tree
  • Native : Indo-Malayan
  • Comments : Common in forest of Western Ghats. Fruits edible. The timber is not durable
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Hassan, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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