Botanical name: Beilschmiedia wightii    Family: Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Synonyms: Beilschmiedia zeylanica, Dehaasia wightii, Apollonias zeylanica

Ceylon Purplenut is a tree, up to 25 m high, bark 1.4-1.6 cm thick, surface brown, smooth; blaze dull yellow with white streak, branchlets hairless. Leaf-buds are elongate, perulate with lanceshaped scales. Leaves are simple, alternate and opposite, leaf-stalk 1-2.5 cm, stout, hairless; blade 7.5-15 x 2-6.2 cm, elliptic, elliptic-ovate, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceshaped, base pointed or alternate, tip bluntly tapering, margin entire, hairless, shining, leathery; lateral nerves 8-10 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae netveined, prominent; surface areolate. Flowers are bisexual, minute, greenish-yellow, borne in leaf-axils and at branch-ends, in hairless panicles, ebracteate. Flower-cluster-stalk and flower-stalk are slender. Flower-tube is short,with 6 tepals, 3+3 almost equal; stamens 9 perfect, in 3 rows; staminodes 3; style slender, stigma headlike.Fruit is a purple berry 1.7-1.8 cm long, ovoid, smooth. Ceylon Purplenut is native to wet forests of South India and Sri Lanka.

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