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Local Name Champati
Botanical Name Polyalthia cerasoides (Roxb.) Bedd.
Common Name Champati
Family Annonaceae
Distribution Found throughout Odisha. Distributed primarily in the Himalayan foothills and the Western Ghats of India. It is native to the Indian subcontinent
Habit Tree
Short Description It is a deciduous tree that can grow up to 20 meters tall, produces edible fruits.

Descriptions

It is a medium-sized tree. Leaves are simple, alternate, distichous, entire, and estipulate. They are oblong-lanceolate or ovate in shape, glabrous above, and pubescent beneath, base is obtuse or acute, and the apex can be acute or acuminate. Flowers are bisexual, green, axillary, or extra axillary, solitary. Fruit an aggregate of berries. Each fruitlet is ellipsoid to broadly ovoid, puberulent, contains one globose seed.

Flowering & Fruiting Period

April-August

Use(s)

Bark paste is used in teeth problems.