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Kananeer maram PRODUCT NAME

Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntz = Elaeodendron glaucum (Pers.) = Manifera glauca (Rottb.) SCIENTIFIC NAME

Common Name: Kananeer maram
Local Name: India: Kananeer maram (Irula, Kurumba), Kaneera maram, Kuruvali, Khiri (Tamil), Jamrasi (Hindi), Nirija (Telugu)
Family: Celastraceae
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Product Description: An evergreen tree. Flower in axillary or terminal corymbose cymes, green. Fruit an oblong drupe, seed one. Planted as avenue trees. Bark relatively thin, blaze grey flesh colored. Watery sap oozes from out of cut bark. In the forest when all trees wilt and look dry in the summer, the leaves are still dark green.
NTFP Classification: Ornamental plants

DISTRIBUTION

Countries Found: India Sri Lanka
Description: Foothills to 1200 m, very common.

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Partners: Keystone

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External Links: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=242421205
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