• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Neolamarckia cadamba (Roxb.) Bosser
• Common name : Kadamb Tree
• Vernacular name : Kadambah (Sanskrit); Kadamb (Hindi); Kaduavalatige, Kadamba-vriksha (Kannada); Aattuthekku, Kadaarvayura, Kadambari, Kadambu, Kadhamba-vriksham, Kattuchakka, Kodavara, Vellakadambu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Along banks of rivers and streams in Evergreen forests, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Rare, found growing in wet places
• Key identification features : Horizontal branching tree, branch scars resemble shape of elephant's eye.
• Flower, Fruit : April-September
• Collection Nos : KFP 8425
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : Asia, Pacific, Ausralia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Neolamarckia cadamba. Downloaded on 3 July 2025.

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