Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Lauraceae | Genus: Beilschmiedia | Species:
Beilschmiedia roxburghiana
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Habit |
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Flower |
Fruit |
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| Synonym | Laurus bilocularis Roxb., Tetranthera fagifolia Wall., Beilschmiedia fagifolia var. dalzellii Meissner | Flower Color | Yellow - Orange |
| Common Name | Thulo Tarshing | Flower Type | Cyme |
| English / Trade Name | Thulo Tarshing | Flowering Period | July-Sept |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Katti | Fruiting Period | Oct-Dec |
| Altitude | 250-2000 m | Fruit Type | Drupe |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit is ellipsoid, smooth, rounded at both ends, tip mucronate |
| Habitat | Tropical or sub- tropical moist broadleaf forest only | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Eastern Himalaya, Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, Indo-China | Bark Details | Bark is pale to dark brown, smooth and they have fine, reddish-brown hairs densely covering the branchlets |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Elliptic | ||
| Description of Species | Tree up to 10-15 m tall; branchlets blackish brown, prominently angled, sparsely velvety or smooth. Leaves opposite, sometimes alternate, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or elliptic-lanceshaped, papery or somewhat leathery, minutely gland-dotted on both surfaces. Flowers in cyme-like panicles or racemes, in leaf axils or at branch ends, gray-yellow velvety. Tepals ovate. Fruit ellipsoid, smooth, rounded at both ends, tip mucronate. Fruiting stalks robust, always brown maculate. | Leaf Details | Leaves opposite, sometimes alternate, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or elliptic-lanceshaped, papery or somewhat leathery, minutely gland-dotted on both surfaces. |
