Olea dioica Roxb.
കരിവെട്ടി
| Family: | OLEACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Not available | ||||
| Synonym: | Tetrapilus dioicus (Roxb.)L.A.S.Johnson | ||||
| Common Name: | Edana, Edala, Koruku, Vayala, Vayana, Vetila, Vidana, Palarana | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | November - April | ||||
| Distribution: | Native to India | ||||
| Habitat: | Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains | ||||
| Uses: | Avenue plant, remedy for fever | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Olea dioica are trees with bark grey or brown, rough, shallowly vertically grooved. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic-oblong or elliptic lanceolate, margin serrate, pink when young. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, creamy-white, small, in panicles, axillary or from leafless nodes, male panicles larger and denser than hermaphrodite. Calyx 4 teethed. Corolla lobes 4, shorter than the tube. Stamens 2, included. Ovary 2-celled, superior; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe, ellipsoid, blue. | ||||