Couroupita guianensis
Family: LECYTHIDACEAE
Malayalam Name(s): Nagalingamaram
English name(s): Cannon ball tree
Habit: Tree
Flowering & Fruiting: January-October
Habitat: Grown in gardens and temple premise
Description: Trees, bark smooth. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, crowed at the apices of branchlets estipulate; petiole 20-40 mm long, stout, swollen at the tip and base, glabrous; lamina 10-21 x 4.5-10 cm, obovate or oblong-ovate, base obtuse, apex acute, obtuse or emarginate, margin entire, crenate or serrate, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-11 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, pink, in racemes on trunk on lower branches; sepals short; petals 5 x 2.5 cm; stamens many, fused into a curved spathulate androphore; ovary half inferior. Fruit globose, berry, surface scurfy, to 10-12 cm across.
