lovely shots On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:23 PM, raman <raman_arunacha...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kokum is a tree with a dense canopy of green leaves and red-tinged tender > emerging leaves. It is indigenous to the Western Ghats region of India, > along the western coast. The tree is large and handsome, having elliptic, > oblong or oblong-lanceolate, deep-green glossy leaves, 5.5-8 cm long and > 2.5-3 cm broad. The flowers are fleshy, dark pink, solitary or in spreading > cluster. The fruit is brownish or brownish-gray, marbled with yellow, and > is crowned by the 4-parted, stalkless stigma. There are from 6 to 8 seeds, > and the pulp is juicy, white, and delicious in taste and odor. It is about > the size of an orange. An average kokum tree bears hundreds of fruits > during summer. When they are tender, they are green in color. As they > ripen, they get the beautiful purple color. The fruits are plucked when > they are ripe. The tree is a source of kokam butter which is used in > cosmetics and confectionary. Flowering: November-February > > Raman > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
