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Climbing Alangium
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Climbing Alangium
E Native Photo: Dinesh Valke
Common name: Climbing Alangium • Hindi: अकोल Akol, दीर्घकील Dirghakila, नेदिष्ठ Nedishth, पीतसार Pita-Sara, ताम्रफल Tamraphala • Kannada: ಗುಡ್ಡದ ಗೋಣಿ Guddada Goni, ಕಲ್ಲು ಮಾವು Kallu Mavu • Malayalam: കരങ്കോലം Karankolam, വള്ളി അങ്കോലം Valli Ankolam • Marathi: अंकोळ Ankol • Odia: ଅଙ୍କୋଟ Ankota, ଆଙ୍କୁଲ Ankula, ଲମ୍ବ କର୍ଣ୍ଣ Lamba Karnna, ପୀତ ସାର Pita Sara • Pali: अंकोल Ankola • Sanskrit: अङ्कोल Ankola • Tamil: ஏறழிஞ்சில் Eralincil • Telugu: నల్ల అంకోడము Nalla Ankolamu, నల్ల ఊడుగ Nalla Uduga • Tibetan: ཀང་ཀ་ར Kang Ka Ra • Tulu: ಅಂಕೋಲೆದ ಮರ Ankoleda Mara • Urdu: اکول Akol, ديرگهہ کيل Dirghakila, نيدشٿهہ Nedishth, پيت سار Pit-Sar Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Alangium hexapetalum    Family: Cornaceae (Dogwood family)
Synonyms: Alangium salviifolium var. hexapetalum, Alangium salviifolium subsp. hexapetalum
Climbing Alangium is a straggling, armed evergreen shrub with leaves 13-18 x 5-7 cm, obovate-oblong, tip tapering, base round to somewhat heart-shaped, nerves 5 pairs, lowest pair from the base, rib-like; nervules netveined, almost parallel; leaf-stalk up to 1 cm long. Flowers are 2 cm long, borne in fascicles in leaf-axils. Flower-stalks are 8 mm long velvet-hairy; sepal-cup cup-shaped, 5 mm across, 7-teethed, densely woolly. Petals are 7, each 17 x 2 mm, linear-oblong, woolly; stamens 14, filaments 8 mm long, fringed with hairs below; anthers 7 mm long, linear; ovary inferior, 1-celled, ovule solitary, style 1, elongate, stigma capitate. Berry is 2 x 1.3 cm, ellipsoid, woolly. Climbing Alangium is found in South India and Sri Lanka. Flowering: March-August.
Identification credit: Dinesh Valke Photographed in Salkod, Karnataka.
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