Flowers Fruits

Flowers are Fruit is an

bisexual and indehiscent pod,
fragrant, yellow often twisted, 5
or cream to 9 centimeters
colored, sepals by 1 to 3
3 to 4 centimeters,
millimeters pale to blackish
long, petals 3 to brown, 1- to 10-
6 millimeters seeded.
long.

Trunk Leaves
Crooked and Leaves are
twisted ruck of double-compound,
the tree usually with 5-10 pairs of
side-stalks, each
bent towards
Roots with 15-25 pairs of
the wind leaflets. The
direction. individual leaflets
are 7 mm long
and 2 mm broad.

Divi divi tree

Typology: Evergreen
Botanical name : Libidibia coriaria
Dimensions: Height 9M tall
 Flowers
The flowers are
fragrant and
hermaphroditic,
surrounded by five Fruits
unequal, thinly The angled
veined, yellowish- daggerlike fruits
white petals. The sometimes grow to
flowers are about 1– 45 cm (18 inches)
1.5 cm (3⁄8–5⁄8 in) long and are
long and 2 cm (3⁄4 explosively
in) broad. dehiscent.

Trunk Leaves
The bark has a The leaves are bi- or
whitish-gray tripinnately
color and is compound and have
surrounded by oval-shaped leaflets
thick cork. Young with conspicuous
shoots have swellings (pulvini)
purplish or Roots where the parts join.
greenish-white,
hairy bark.
Drumstick tree
Typology: Deciduous/perennial
Botanical name : Moringa oleifera
Dimensions: Height 10-12M tall; 45cm
dia
 Flowers
The flowers are
yellowish-white,
Fruits
5 millimetres The fruit is a
(0.20 in) across, black drupe 1
produced in to 1.3
large centimetres
compound (0.39 to 0.51
panicles up to 2 in) long
metres (6 ft 7 containing a
in) long, single seed.
extending out
beyond the
leaves.
.

Leaves
Roots the leaves with a bare
Short fibrous roots petiole terminating in
a rounded fan of
that hold maximum numerous leaflets.
amount of water Each leaf is 1.5–2
metres (4 ft 11 in – 6
Trunk ft 7 in) long, with 40
leaflets up to 80
centimetres (31 in)
long, conjoined over
half of this length.
Dwarf palmetto
Typology: Evergreen/perennial
Botanical name : Sabal minor
Dimensions: Height 3Ft tall
 Flowers
Pistillate flowers with
sepals 2.4-3 x 3-4.1 mm., Fruits
broadly ovate, rounded; Fruit only known
petals hardly connate at from carbonized
the base, 3.5-4.1 x 4–5 remnants, about
mm., imbricate but for the 14 x 10.5 mm.,
apiculate apex, broadly possibly with
ovate, concave; fibrous endocarp,
staminodes 6, 0.3-1.6 mm., possibly with
narrow and flat; ovary ruminate
asymmetrical, 2.7-4.8 x endosperm.
2.8–4 mm., with indistinct
pyramidal stigmas.

Trunk Leaves
Trunk 3-7 m. tall, 12 cm. long, pale green with a
in diam.; internodes 10- white bloom, ligules 2 cm;
20 cm., pale brown to petiole 3–30 cm. long, 3-6 x
grey (green and ringed 2.2-4.5 cm. in diam.,
when young), nodal chanelled with soft edges;
scars 0.5 cm., grey; rachis 2.1-2.8 m, in mid-leaf
wood hard; base of 2.2-3.5 cm. wide, green;
stem slightly wider, pinnae 74-84 on each side
with some surface of the rachis, grouped only
roots; slight bulge in Roots very slightly in 2s-5s, in one
upper trunk in one older plane, the pinnae on
tree. opposite sides of the rachis
at an angle of roughly 130°
Solitary palm tree +-

Typology: Evergreen/perennial
Botanical name : dypsis ambositrae
Dimensions: Height 7M tall; 12CM dia
trunk
 Flowers
Loose, yellow-
orange spikes
Fruits
at leaf axils or Flat, oblong
in clusters of pod, twisted
spikes at stem at maturity,
tips; flowers splitting to
mimosa-like, reveal seeds.
with numerous The fruit
free stamens. resembles
. the shape of
a human ear.

Trunk Leaves
The bark has a Alternate, simple,
whitish-gray reduced to
color and is flattened blade-like
surrounded by phyllodes slightly
thick cork. Young curved, 11–20 cm
shoots have (5–8 in) long, with
purplish or 3–7 main parallel
greenish-white, veins
hairy bark. and a marginal
gland near the
Earleaf Acacia tree base; surfaces dark
Typology: Evergreen/perennial green
Botanical name : Acacia auriculiformis
Dimensions: Height 15-30M tall; 12 diameter
trunk
 Flowers Fruits
fragrant The fruit is a
creamy white small berry 2
and yellow cm diameter,
flowers in late similar to a
spring and small
intermittently persimmon.
throughout the
summer..

Trunk Leaves
jet-black charred- The leaves are
looking bark, entire, about 6–15
beneath which cm long and 3–5
the wood is pure cm broad.
white until the
heart is reached.
Roots

Ebony tree
Typology: Evergreen/perennial
Botanical name : Diospyros ebenum
Dimensions: Height 20-25M tall
 Fruits
round fruits are
Flowers
large, greenish
The flowers are
yellow, have many
large, 15–20
seeds and are edible.
cm diameter,
The fruit is a 5–12 cm
with five white
diameter aggregate
petals and
of 15 carpels, each
numerous
carpel containing five
yellow
seeds embedded in
stamens.
an edible but fibrous
pulp.

Leaves
Trunk The leaves are 15–
36 cm long, with a
conspicuously
corrugated surface
with impressed
veins. Its branches
are used to make
good firewood.
Elephant apple tree
Typology: Evergreen
Botanical name : Dillenia indica
Dimensions: Height 15M tall
 Fruits
It is reddish, about the
size of a
large plum, and grows in
Flowers large bunches. Each fruit
The is made
flowers are up of an oily, fleshy outer
produced in layer (the pericarp), with a
single seed (the palm
dense
kernel), also rich in oil.
clusters;
When ripe, each bunch of
each fruit weighs between 5–
individual 30 kg (11–66 lb)
flower is depending on the age of
small, with the palm tree.
three sepals
and three
petals.

Leaves
The leaves are
Trunk pinnate and reach
between 3-5 m long. A
young palm produces
about 30 leaves a
year. Established
palms over 10 years
produce about 20
Oil palm leaves a year.

Typology: Evergreen/perennial
Botanical name : elaeis guineensis
Dimensions: Height 20M tall
 Flowers Fruits
Borne 1-3 in the leaf ISyncarp berries;
axils; hermaphroditic; succulent, sweet pulp;
triangular with 3 large many seeds: highly
fleshy outer petals and inconsistent in shape; turns
3 rudimentary inner green to yellow when ripe
petals

Trunk
Dense, Leaves
multiple- Alternate; deciduous; oblong-
branched elliptic or ovate-oblong leaves;
growth habit pointed at the apex, rounded at
the base; 4-10 in. (10-25 cm)
long; thin but somewhat leathery
and hairy on the underside

Rollinia delicosa/wild
sweetsop
Typology: Deciduous/perennial
Botanical name : Annona mucosa
Dimensions: Height 4-15M tall
 Fruits
Flowers long flattened pods that are
small, spherical heads of green at early stage and turn
white flowers, the same as brownish black at the time of
do many acacia and mimosa maturity
species,

Trunk
Leaves
leaves are similar not only
to those of the regular
Tamarind, but also to
acacia and mimosa leaves

River
tamarind
Typology: Evergreen/perennial
Botanical name : Leucaena
leucocephala
Dimensions: Height 30-60ft tall
 Flowers
browninsh black on
wiry stems, not very Leaves
ornamental unless green, white
you are a botanist margin, pinkish-ting
in spring or cool
weather, tawny in fall

Roots

Broadleaf sedge
Typology: Evergreen
Botanical name : Carex platyphylla
Dimensions: Height 6-12inch tall
 Flowers
Fruits
The Flowers
Fruit is a single
are
seeded pale-
polygamous
reddish
and show
subglobose
panicles
capsule.
inflorescence.
They are
yellow and
orange color

Leaves
Leaves are
compound,
Trunk imparipinnate,
alternate; oblong-
lanceolate, apex
acuminate; base
asymmetric; with
entire margin.

Rohitak tree/pithraj
tree
Typology: Evergreen
Botanical name : Aphanamixis
polystachya
Dimensions: Height 10-20M tall