Thanks Raman ji for sharing.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:24 PM, raman <raman_arunacha...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Indian cherry is a small to moderate-sized deciduous tree with a short > bole and spreading crown. The stem bark is greyish brown, smooth or > longitudinally wrinkled. Flowers are short-stalked, bisexual and white in > colour, appear in loose corymbose cymes. The flowers open only at night. > The fruit is a yellow or pinkish-yellow shining globose or ovoid drupe > seated in a saucer-like enlarged calyx. It turns black on ripening and the > pulp gets viscid. Indian cherry grows in the sub-Himalayan tract and outer > ranges, ascending up to about 1500 m elevation. It is found in a variety of > forests ranging from the dry deciduous forests of Rajasthan to the moist > deciduous forests of Western Ghats and tidal forests in Myanmar. In > Maharashtra, it grows in moist monsoon forest also. > > Raman >
