Manipur Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Manipur (India)
Designed & Developed by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Lauraceae | Genus: Persea | Species: Persea macrantha (Nees) Kosterm. |
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| Synonym | Machilus macarantha | Flower Color | Greenish |
| Common Name | Large-Flowered Bay Tree | Flower Type | Panicle |
| English / Trade Name | Large-Flowered Bay Tree | Flowering Period | Oct-Dec |
| Vernacular /Local Name | - | Fruiting Period | Jan-March |
| Altitude | Above 1100-1900m | Fruit Type | Berry |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit15-18 mm across, globose, green with white specks, aromatic, with a basal persistent rim of perianth; lobes reflexed in young fruits, deciduous later; epicarp red when ripe; seed one, globose |
| Habitat | Occurs in moist deciduous to evergreen forests | Bark Type | Rugged |
| Distribution | Peninsular India and Sri Lanka | Bark Details | Bark thinly scaly, rough, exfoliations small, brittle; blaze pinkish |
| Distribution in manipur | Eastern | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Oblong | ||
| Description of Species | It is evergreen trees, to 30 m high, bark 20-25 mm thick, surface pale brown, mottled with dark blotches, scurfy and thinly scaly, rough, exfoliations small, brittle; blaze pinkish; branchlets glabrous | Leaf Details | Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tip of branchlets, estipulate; petiole 15-40 mm long |
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