Dilip Walse Patil

Scientific Name : Tectona grandis L.f.

Category : Angiosperms

Status : Alive

Habit : A large, deciduous tree with square, channeled, hairy stem. Leaves : Very large, opposite or whorled, entire, elliptic or obovate, acute, rough and hairy. Inflorescence : Large, terminal, branched, hairy cymose panicles. Flowers : Bracteate, bracts lanceolate at the forks, bracteoles below the calyx, linear. Calyx 5-6 lobed, bell-shaped, hairy, enlarged and bladder-like in fruit and enclosing it, ovoid, crumpled, veined. Corolla white, lobes 5-6, unequal, imbricate. Stamens 5, on the base of the corolla. Ovary 4-celled, fleshy, ovule in each cell, style slender, stigma bifid. Fruit : Drupe subglobose, pericarp soft with felted stellate hairs, endocarp bony, enclosed in accrescent calyx, seed exalbuminous. Flowering and Fruiting Time : June - September Significance : Timber is famous all over the world for house-building and furniture.