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family Ebenaceae
Diospyros anisandra Blake; kakal che'
Small
tree; branchlets dimorphic, leaves and flowers in tuft-like clusters
on short shoots; leaves alternate, simple, obovate, glossy, glabrous,
base attenuate, margins entire, apex notched (retuse); flowers
borne on short pedicels in the axils of short shoot leaves; petals
4 (rarely 5), creamy white or pale yellow, senescing to brown;
sepals 4 (rarely 5), persisting in fruit and becoming linear with
acute apices; fruit globose, ca 1 cm in diam.
Additional images:
Of the three species of Diospyros at Rancho Kiuic, Diospyros
anisandra can be recognized by its, small obovate leaves clustered
on short shoots.
Small
tree; branchlets dimorphic, leaves and flowers in tuft-like clusters
on short shoots; leaves alternate, simple, obovate, glossy, glabrous,
base attenuate, margins entire, apex notched (retuse); flowers
borne on short pedicels in the axils of short shoot leaves; petals
4 (rarely 5), creamy white or pale yellow, senescing to brown;
sepals 4 (rarely 5), persisting in fruit and becoming linear with
acute apices; fruit globose, ca 1 cm in diam.
