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Umbrella or Portia Tree-- Thespesia populnea-- ... Sources: Common Trees of India, Pippa Mukherjee, World Wildlife Fund India/ Oxford University Press 1983, ...
Maesopsis eminii, the umbrella tree, is a species of tree in the family Rhamnaceae found in India and Africa. It is the only species in the genus Maesopsis. It is often grown as a plantation tree, and as a shade tree in coffee plantations and other crops. Birds and monkeys may disperse the seeds.
Heptapleurum actinophyllum is an evergreen tree growing to 15 m (50 feet) tall. It has palmately compound medium green leaves in groups of seven leaflets. It is usually multi-trunked, and the flowers develop at the top of the tree. [3] It often grows as a hemiepiphyte on other rainforest trees.
Umbrella tree may refer to: Heptapleurum actinophyllum, the umbrella tree or octopus tree; Heptapleurum arboricola, the dwarf umbrella tree; Maesopsis eminii; Melia azedarach; Magnolia tripetala, the umbrella magnolia; Musanga cecropioides, the African corkwood; Polyscias murrayi, an Australian rainforest tree; Terminalia catappa, the Indian almond
In India, the tree goes by a variety of names, many deriving from the Sanskrit kētakī. [3] in Kannada called ‘’ ಕೇದಿಗೆ’’ [3] in Malayalam called pookkaitha and its flower known as thaazhampoo, In Tamil, it is called kaithai (கைதை) and tāḻai (தாழை) and both are mentioned in Sangam literature. It is called ...
Fruits. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 8–9 m tall, free-standing, or clinging to the trunks of other trees as an epiphyte.The leaves are palmately compound, with 7–9 leaflets, the leaflets 9–20 cm long and 4–10 cm broad (though often smaller in cultivation) with a wedge-shaped base, entire margin, and an obtuse or acute apex, sometimes emarginate.
The natural range of the climbing umbrella tree is from India through Southeast Asia and Southern China, Melanesia, Papuasia, Christmas Island and northern Australia. [3] [4] [5] In Australia it is restricted to the northeastern parts of Queensland. [4] [11] It grows in mainly in rainforest and gallery forest from near sea level up to 2,500 m ...
Chyur tree in the high altitudes of the Himalayas growing at an altitude between 500 and 1000 m, known as the Indian butter tree (Diploknema butyracea), is called a Kalpavriskha, or tree of paradise by the people of the mountainous region as it yields honey, jaggery and ghee. It is in the shape of an umbrella. [18]