Manipur Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Manipur (India)
Designed & Developed by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Apocynaceae | Genus: Alstonia | Species: Alstonia scholaris (L.) R. Br. |
Habit |
Leaf |
Flower |
Fruit |
Bark |
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| Synonym | Echites scholaris | Flower Color | White |
| Common Name | White cheese wood, shaitan wood, pulai, chatiyan wood | Flower Type | Panicle |
| English / Trade Name | Devils tree | Flowering Period | Jan-March |
| Vernacular /Local Name | - | Fruiting Period | April-June |
| Altitude | Upto 900 m | Fruit Type | Follicle |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit ,30 - 60 cm long and 0.3 cm in diameter, cylindric, pendulous in clusters, become completely averted after dehiscence |
| Habitat | Occurs in moist deciduous forests and sacred groves, also in the plains | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Australia,Taiwan, Cambodia | Bark Details | Bark grey rough and yellowish from inside, branches whorled, young branches lenticellate, when he bark is injured a milky juice comes out |
| Distribution in manipur | Central, Eastern, Southern, Tengnoupal | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Whorled (leaves in groups of 3 or more along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Obovate | ||
| Description of Species | It is a medium to large tree, to about 40 m high with a somewhat tessellated corky grey to grey-white bark, the boles of larger trees are strongly fluted to 10 m | Leaf Details | 4 - 7 in whorls, coriaceous, oblong - lanceolate, obtuse or bluntly acuminate, dark green above, pale and covered with whitish bloom beneath, base tapering, main nerves numerous, nearly horizontal, parallel, uniting in an intramarginal nerve |
