Please identify this small tree

Alok Goyal

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Jun 13, 2011, 6:58:10 AM6/13/11

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Hallo all

please identify this tree.

clicked on 13 June, 2011, 3:15 pm

Size-small

habitat- at a park in sector 36 , Chandigarh

leaves- thick leathery and large, SOMEWHAT similar to that of Manilkara hexandra but much larger with a small petiole and notched base, fresh leaves soft, rust colured as shown

flowers white, very small in a dense inflorescence, fragrant, bifid stigma protruding out. petals-- we-cant-recurve-more-than-that type.

fruits- sweet, green turning to reddish and then deep blue or purple when fully ripe.
bark- as shown, light grey coloured

Alok

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shrikant ingalhalikar

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Jun 13, 2011, 8:18:39 AM6/13/11

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Most probably Ixora pavetta of Rubiaceae. Regards, Shrikant

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Smilax004

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Jun 13, 2011, 1:07:06 PM6/13/11

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I too think that this could be Ixora pavetta

Regards
Giby

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Pinki

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Jun 14, 2011, 12:27:25 AM6/14/11

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Thankyou very much for the identification Gigy Ji and Shrikant Ji

Alok

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