27 April 2015 12 5K Report

This tree is known as Sitapatra in local Bengali language. When you scratch the surface of the leaf, the scratch marks turn black (because the fluid turns dark upon contact with air). It can grow from coppices. I never saw the tree in flower in the past 15 years - until this April. Distribution: western lateritic districts of West Bengal and Jharkhand.

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