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Family: Sapindaceae	Genus: Sapindus	Species: Sapindus mukorossi Gaertn.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Sapindus detergens Roxb.	Flower Color	White
Common Name		Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	Soapnut Tree	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Reetha	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Upto 1500m	Fruit Type	Drupe
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	The fruit, called a soap nut, is a small leathery-skinned drupe 1-2 cm diameter, yellow ripening blackish, containing one to three seeds
Habitat	Found in both plain and hill areas	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	China, Japan, South-West India, Bengal and West Pakistan	Bark Details	Bark is dark to pale yellow, fairly smooth, with many vertical lines
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Butterfly Park	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Pinnate
Description of Species	A deciduous tree up to 20 m tall. Leaves pinnate, 15-35 cm long, glabrous, leaflets sub - sessile, 4-8 pairs, opposite to sub-opposite, lanceolate to oblong, 6-15 cm long, 3-5 cm broad, entire, acute to acuminate, oblique. Flowers greenish-yellow in terminal, pubescent panicles. Sepals unequal, c. 2 mm long, elliptic-oblong to ovate, margin ciliate, glandular at the tip. Petals 5, 3 mm long, lanceolate ovate, clawed, ciliate. Stamens 8, free, filament c. 3 mm long.a nthers 0.5 mm long, oblong. Ovary sessile, 2-4 mm long, obovate, 3-locular, glabrous. Stigma 3-lobed. Berry globose, 1.5-2.5 cm long, hard or coriaceous when dry, yellowish-brown, 1-seeded, 2 undeveloped cocci at the base. seed 1.4 cm in diameter, black to dark brown	Leaf Details	Leaves pinnate, 15-35 cm long, glabrous, leaflets sub-sessile, 4-8 pairs, opposite to sub-opposite, lanceolate to oblong, 6-15 cm long, 3-5 cm broad, entire, acute to acuminate, oblique

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