Common name: Large Leaf Looking Glass Mangrove • Bengali: সুংদৰী Sundari
Botanical name: Heritiera macrophylla Family: Sterculiaceae (Cacao family)
Large Leaf Looking Glass Mangrove is a large evergreen tree forming an
umbrella-shaped crown. Leaves are broadly ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong,
20-30 cm long, young rusty-brown, silvery beneath, with 3-5 cm long stalks.
Flowers are unisexual, 3-4 mm across, white-yellowish to pinkish-rose in
color, in foot long panicle-like cymes, in leaf axils. Large Leaf Looking
Glass Mangrove is a native of India and Myanmar. Flowering: March-April.
Identification credit: Susmita Basu
| Photographed at Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, West Bengal. |
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