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Family: Elaeocarpaceae	Genus: Elaeocarpus	Species: Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Gaertn.) K.Schum

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Elaeocarpus adenophyllus Wall., Elaeocarpus angustifolius Wight, Elaeocarpus cuneatus Wight, Elaeocarpus malabaricus Oken, Elaeocarpus sylvestris Blanco, Elaeocarpus gan	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Ceylon Olive, Wild Olive tree	Flower Type	Raceme
English / Trade Name	Ceylon Olive	Flowering Period	Oct-Dec
Vernacular /Local Name	Rudraksha	Fruiting Period	April-June
Altitude	Up to 1600 m.	Fruit Type	Drupe
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruit a drupe, subspherical, green, style persistent; stone tubercled
Habitat	Sub-canopy tree in evergreen to semi-evergreen forests	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Indomalaysia	Bark Details	Bark brownish, smooth; blaze orange red.
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Lence shaped
Description of Species	Tree up to 20 m high, aerial roots on large buttresseses. Bark brown, mottled with grey, blaze red. Leaves simple, alternate; leaf-stalk, slender, velvet-hairy, swollen tipped, with 2 minute glands at tip; blade, elliptic-obovate or elliptic ovate, base pointed or wedge-shaped, tip pointed, margin rounded toothed-saw toothed, hairless, leathery;lateral nerves 3-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae netveined, slender, prominent, domatia glandular. Flowers bisexual, white, in leaf-axils racemes, calyx 5, ovate, velvet-hairy on outside, densely glandulose, valvate; carolla 5, laciniate, inserted round the base of glandular disc; stamens many, inserted between the glands on the disc. Fruit a drupe, subspherical, green, style persistent; stone tubercled.	Leaf Details	Leaves simple, alternate; leaf-stalk, slender, velvet- hairy, swollen tipped, with 2 minute glands at tip; blade, elliptic-obovate or elliptic ovate, base pointed or wedge-shaped, tip pointed, margin rounded toothed-saw toothed, hairless, leathery; lateral nerves 3-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae netveined, slender, prominent, domatia glandular.

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