Flacourtia jangomas (Lour.) Raeusch.
ലവലോലിക്ക
| Family: | FLACOURTIACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Puneala Plum | ||||
| Synonym: | Stigmarota jangomas Lour. | ||||
| Common Name: | Loika, Luikka | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | November - April | ||||
| Distribution: | Widely cultivated in South East Asia and East Africa | ||||
| Habitat: | Cultivated | ||||
| Uses: | Fruits edible, timber yielding, jam preparation. The leaves and roots are used to treat diarrhoea due to the high tannin content. | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Small trees, 5-10 m high, dioecious; bark pale brown to copper-red. Leaves alternate, oblong-ovate to lanceolate.Flowers in axillary, subcorymbose racemes.Disc faintly lobed, fleshy, white or orange-yellow. Male flowers: stamens numerous, free, glabrous; anthers ellipsoid, versatile, extrorse; pistillode absent. Female flowers: ovary flask-shaped, incompletely 4-6 loculed by false septa; ovules 2 in each locule. Fruit a berry, subglobose, scarlet red or dark purple when ripe. | ||||