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Family: Menispermaceae	Genus: Cocculus	Species: Cocculus laurifolius DC.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Cocculus angustifolius Hassk. , Cocculus bariensis Pierre ex Gagnep. , Cebatha laurifolia (DC.) Kuntze,	Flower Color	Yellow - Orange
Common Name	Snail seed	Flower Type	Panicle
English / Trade Name	Laurel-Leaved Snail Tree	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Snail seed	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Between 1200 and 1600 m.	Fruit Type	Drupe
Habit	Shrub	Fruit Details	Drupes rotund glabrous, green to blackish, 4 – 8 mm long.
Habitat	Common; edges of crop fields, forests and river banks in the sub Himalayan tracts. N.E. and S. India; SE Asia.	Bark Type	Fissured
Distribution	India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand	Bark Details	Bark shallowly reticulately fissured; blaze white.
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Elliptic
Description of Species	Evergreen shrubs or small trees; branchlets glabrous, stem pale – green, to 6m high. Leaves elliptic or elliptic – lanceolate, 7 – 15 x 2.5 – 4 cm, dark green, glossy above, pale beneath, strongly 3 – nerved from the base; petioles 3 – 5 mm long. Male flowers cream – yellow, in axillary, single or thyrsoid glabrous cymes; bracts subulate, frequently puberulous; petals emarginate, clasping the stamens. Female flowers with 6 – staminodes; carpels 3; style slender, reflexed. Drupes rotund glabrous, green to blackish, 4 – 8 mm long.	Leaf Details	Leaves elliptic or elliptic – lanceolate, 7 – 15 x 2.5 – 4 cm, dark green, glossy above, pale beneath, strongly 3 – nerved from the base; petioles 3 – 5 mm long.

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