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Botanical Name: Vitex altissima L.f. [Verbenaceae] Common Name: Peacock Chaste Tree, Tail Chaste Tree, Peacock's foot tree,बलगे, धवी-रिवटी  Distribution: India: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharastra, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Meghalaya. Flowering Class: Dicot Habitat: Moist deciduous forests Habit: Medium size/Large deciduous Tree Flowering and Fruiting: Flowering : April to May Fruiting: July -August The Plant Stem  Leaves Flower Fruit

Botanical Name: Premna coriacea C.B.Clarke [Lamiaceae] Common Name: Leathery Premna/चम्बरवेल Chambarvel, Chambarti, Rawan Local Name: Chambarvel Distribution:  Flowering Class:  Habitat: Habit: Huge Climber, extensively climbs on trees Flowering and Fruiting: Flowering : Fruiting:  The Plant Its a large woody climber.  It is deciduous and sheds the leaves in Jan-March. Leaves are not immediately renewed.  Habit and Habitat   The Stem  The Bark is smooth, with lenticels   The Leaves Opposite leaves, coriaceous  Flower Flowers in terminal corymbose cymes  Fruit Drupe, black, ovoid, 1-seeded

Botanical Name: Ziziphus rugosa Lam. [Rhamnaceae] Common Name: तोरण, Wild Jujube Distribution:India: Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka,Kerala, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar Places observed: Talzan, Charkop-Mumbai, Tungareshwar, Forest patches in Maharashtra Flowering Class: Dicot Habitat: deciduous- semi Deciduous forests, grasslands, dry forest patches Habit: Straggling shrub, Deciduous Flowering and Fruiting: Flowering: February to May Fruiting: March to May The Plant The Stem Leaves   Flower Fruit

Botanical Name: Lumnitzera racemosa Willd. [Combreataceae] Common Name: Black Mangrove, किर्पा kirpa (Marathi) Lumnitzera , named after the German botanist, Stephan Lumnitzer (1750-1806) Distribution: Mangrove habitat of Western coasts, Eastern coasts of India, Bangladesh, Indonesia Places observed: Talzan, Charkop-Mumbai Flowering Class: Dicot Habitat: Mangrove Habit: Shrub or small Tree Flowering and Fruiting: Flowering June to October-November, Fruiting: December to March along with sparse flowering The Plant Stem Young stem is reddish   For older trees, the bark is grey and fissured longitudinally  Leaves Leaves are sessile. Alternately arranged on the stem. Simple , 3-7 cm long and 2-3 cm wide in size ,  Succulent and have Serrated Margin. The shape of the leaf is obovate and at the tip there is a notch.  Flowers Flowers in leaf axils in small spike. Flowers are white in colour, the calyx is green and tube like. The calyx is divided into 5 sma

Botanical Name: Kydia calycina Roxb.[Malvaceae] Common Name: वारंग Warang, रान भेंडी ranbhendi Distribution: Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Odisha Places observed: SGNP, Tungareshwar (Maharashtra) Flowering Class: Dicot Habitat: Deciduous forests, Moist- Deciduous forests to Semi-Evergreen forests Habit: Tree Flowering and Fruiting: Flowering :October Fruiting: December. Dry fruits stay on the tree for longer time, till March-April. Plant  Stem Leaves Flower Fruit Seeds