12112010-PR-2-Chennai -For ID help.

[Padmini Raghavan]

This tree was growing in a Govt. Park. It had no flowers or fruit.

There were two others of the same kind on this quiet road.

Is it Putranjiva roxburgii?

 Thanks,

Padmini Raghavan.

[Pankaj Kumar]

Yes this is Putranjiva roxburghii often called as Drypetes roxburghii.
Regards
Pankaj

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Department of Habitat Ecology
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[Dinesh Valke]

Putranjiva roxburghii ... popular synonym: Drypetes roxburghii ... other synonyms: Liodendron roxburghii, Nageia putranjiva


commonly known as: child's amulet tree, child-life tree, lucky bean tree, officinal drypetes, spurious wild olive • Bengali: putranjiva • Gujarati: પુત્રંજીવા putranjiva • Hindi: पुत्रजीव putrajiv • Kannada: ಮೆಣಸಿನಕಲೆ menasinakale, ಪುತ್ರಮ್ಜೀವ putramjiva • Konkani: saman • Malayalam: പുത്തിലഞ്ഞി puththilanji • Marathi: जीवपुत्रक jivputrak, पुत्रजीवी putrajivi • Oriya: poilundia, sutajivah •  Sanskrit: अपत्यम्जीवः apatyamjivah, पुत्रंजीवः putranjivah, श्लीपदमपहः shripadamapah • Tamil: கறிப்பாலை kari-p-palai, புத்திரசீவி puttira-civi • Telugu: పుత్రజీవిక putra-jivika



Regards.