Mimusops elengi L.
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Description
Mimusops elengi is a medium-sized evergreen tree, usually 10–20 m tall, with a dense rounded crown and spreading branches. Bark is greyish-brown, rough, and fissured with age. The plant produces white latex. Leaves are simple, alternate, clustered near branch ends, and leathery. Leaf blades are 5–15 cm long, elliptic to oblong, glossy dark green, with entire margins and a pointed apex. Young leaves may be reddish-brown. Flowers are small, bisexual, white, highly fragrant, produced singly or in small clusters in the leaf axils. Flowers have a characteristic two whorls of four sepals, a tubular corolla with several lobes, numerous stamens, and a superior ovary. The fruit is a berry, ovoid to ellipsoid, about 1–3 cm long, turning orange-red when mature. The fruit contains one to several brown seeds.
Diagnostic Characters
Distribution
Native range: Native to South and Southeast Asia.
In Pakistan: Found in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar. Commonly planted in Parks, Gardens, Religious sites.
Phenology
Ethnobotany & Uses
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