Berrya cordifolia
English name(s): Trincomalee wood tree
Habit: Tree
Flowering & Fruiting: March-November
Habitat: Grown as ornamental tree
Description: Tree to 15 m tall. Leaves alternate, simple, ovate-oblong, cordate at base, undulate at margin, acuminate at apex, 12-25 x 4-13 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, stellate-pubescent when young; petioles 3.5-5 cm long, glabrous below, stellate-pubescent above; stipules 1-1.5 cm long, linear, sericeous, caducous. Flowers numerous in lax axillary and terminal panicles; buds globose; pedicels 1-1.5 cm long, pubescent. Petals oblong, obtuse, 6-8 mm long, ultimately reflexed. Stamens numerous, inserted on a short receptacle; filaments 4-5 mm long; anther lobes divergent, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 3 loculed with 4 ovules in each; style ca 3 mm long, slightly papillose at base; stigma peltate, 3-lobed. Capsules globose, 1-1.25 cm, pubescent with 6 horizontally spreading blunt thin wings; wings 2.5-3 x 0.7-1 cm, stellate-pubescent; seeds ca 6 x 3 mm with brown to yellow caducous bristles.