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Bada Peelu
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Bada Peelu
ative Photo: Tabish
Common name: Bada Peelu, large toothbrush tree • Arabic: أراك زيتوني Arak Zaytuni • Gujarati: મીઠીજાર Mithijar, મોટી પીલુ Moti Pilu • Hindi: बड़ा पीलू Bada Pilu • Kachchhi: મિઠેપીલુજો ઝાર Mithepilujo Jhar, મિઠી જાર Mithi Jar • Marathi: गोडपिलु God-Pilu, किंकानेला Kinkanela • Nepali: सानो दाँते ओखर Saano Daante Okhar • Persian: توچ Tvach • Punjabi: ਜਾਲ Jaal, ਵਣ Wan • Rajasthani: मीठी जाल Mithi Jaal, पीलू Pilu • Sanskrit: पीलु Pilu • Sindhi: کبڙ Khabbar, ساڏُئيِن ڄار Saaduiein Jari, ساڏوئيِ Saadwaii • Tamil: பெருகளர்வா Peru-Kalarva • Telugu: జలచెట్టు Jalachettu Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Salvadora oleoides    Family: Salvadoraceae (Salvadora family)

Bada Peelu is a shrub or small tree, attaining 6-9 m height under favourable conditions. It has a short trunk, quite often twisted or bent, up to 2 m in diameter. Branches are numerous, drooping, stiff, often swollen at forks. Bark is gray or whitish-gray. Leaves are blue-green, linear-or ovate-lancelike, leathery and somewhat fleshy, dark greenish-yellow when young, gray when mature. Flowers are stalkless, greenish-white, minute in paniculate spikes, often clustered. Fruit is a spherical drupe, about 6 mm in diameter, usually yellow when ripe, dark brown or red when dry.

Identification credit: Tabish Photographed at Qutub Minar, Delhi.

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