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Eetti PRODUCT NAME

Dalbergia sisssoo Roxb. SCIENTIFIC NAME

Common Name: Eetti
Local Name: Eetti (Irula); Beedi (Kurumba); Tamil- Sissoo, Thaesi
Family: Fabaceae
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Product Description: A large deciduous tree. Flowers are in terminal or axillary panicles, and cream. Fruits are a pod, oblong, faintly nerved, light green. Seed’s one or two, reniform, and compressed. Good timber. Source of nectar bees
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DISTRIBUTION

Countries Found: India
Description: Plains from the coast to 90m. Often planted. 

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Origin: A native of tropical Himalayas to north India 
Management Practices: Cultivated in tropical to sub tropical Africa and West Asia
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Partners: Keystone Foundation

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