Category: C

Botanical name: Murraya koenigii The curry plant, scientifically known as Murraya koenigii, traces its origins to India. Curry leaf oil, extracted through the process of steam distillation, has found application in both culinary and essential oil contexts. Beyond India, this oil can be discovered in the eastern regions, particularly in Burma. Widely utilized across the…

Crateva magna (Lour.) DC. (CAPPARACEAE) Common nameKannada: Bilipatri, Nervala. Description: Deciduous trees up to 6 m tall. Leaves 3 foliolate; petioles up to 0.3-0.5 cm., leaflets membranaceous to sub coriaceous; nerves 11-16 pairs. Flowers many on leafy twigs. Pedicels up to 6.5 cm. sepals ascending. Petals white. The stamens measure 5-5.5 centimeters in length. The…

Croton gibsonianus Nimmo (EUPHORBIACEAE) Description: Bushes reaching heights of up to 5 meters, with branchlets that have sparse stellate hairs when young. The leaves are elliptic or elliptic-oblong, measuring up to 18 by 4 centimeters, rounded at the base, pointed at the apex, with glandular-serrated margins. At the base of the midrib, there is a…

Croton malabaricus Beddome (EUPHORBIACEAE) Common namesMalayalam: Kola vacchi, Thavatta polavu. Description: Trees up to 8 m tall. Leaves rhomboid-ovate or ovate-elliptic, up to 15 x 7.5 cm, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, silver-scaly below; petioles up to 12 cm long. Flowers in terminal racemes covered with scales. The calyx is divided into five lobes.…

Cordia obliqua Willd. (BORAGINACEAE) Common namesSanskrit: Shelu.Kannada: Challe mara, Mannadike.Malayalam: Periya viri.Tamil: Nama viri.Telugu: Iriki, Pedda nakkera. Description: Deciduous trees, 4-8 m tall with thick grey or brown bark. Leaves broadly ovate or orbicular-ovate, 8-14 x 6-13 cm, glabrous, subcordate or truncate or shortly cuneate at base, obtuse at apex, without white discs above, densely…

Corypha umbraculifera L. (PALMAE) Common namesKannada: Sritale.Tulu: Pane, Panoli.Malayalam: Kodapana. Description: Unarmed palms, 10-25 m tall, 0.5-1 m diam., annulate, dying after once flowering and ripening their seed, at the age of between 20-40 years. leaves 2-5 m in diam., plicate, cleft the middle into 80-100 linear-lanceolate acute or 2-fid lobes; petioles 1-3 m long,…

Cinnamomum verum J.S. Presl (LAURACEAE) = C. zeylanicum Blume Common namesKannada: Dalchini, Lavanga pathre.Tulu: Ijin.Malayalam: Karuva.Tamil: Ilavangam, Illavangappattai, Karruwa.Telugu: Sanalinga. Description: Medium-sized evergreen trees up to 10 m tall. Leaves opposite, subopposite or rarely alternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, up to 15 x 8 cm, rounded or acute at base, acute or acuminate at apex, 3-5-nerved;…

Cinnamomum malabatrum (Burm f. ) Blume (LAURACEAE) Common namesKannada: Lavanga patre, Lavanga yele. Description: Towering trees that can reach heights of up to 20 meters. The leaves are elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, measuring up to 28 by 8 centimeters, tapering at the base and pointed at the apex with typically three prominent veins. Their petioles can…

Chionanthus malaelengi (Wallich ex G. Don) Beddome (OLEACEAE) Description: Trees, 8-10 m tall with smooth, shiny bark. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 5-12 x 2-5 cm, acute at both ends, glabrous, coriaceous; main nerves inconspicuous; petioles ca 1.5 cm long. Flowers sessile, in 3-4 cm long branched axillary cymes, yellowish-white, odor of ripe apples. Calyx small,…

Chrysophyllum lanceolatum (Blume) DC. (SAPOTACEAE) Common namesKannada: Paale hannu.Malayalam: Atha.Tamil: Kappalei. Description: Evergreen trees, 15-25 m tall with milky juice; branches horizontal; bark smooth, grey; young parts clothed with fulvous pubescence. Leaves lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, 10-18 x 3-6 cm, acute at base, acuminate at apex, glabrous, shining; main nerves very numerous; petioles 5-8 mm long. Flowers…