Nauclea orientalis - Canary Cheesewood

Canary Cheesewood varies from a medium-sized to tall, well formed tree, with a height of 30 m and a diameter of 1 m. The stem is not buttressed. Its bark is deeply furrowed, outer blaze cream, yellowish, orange or pink, with reddish layers visible as well. Leaves are heart-shaped, deep green, glossy and oppositely placed, 10-27 x 6 x17 cm, leaf-stalks 2-3.5 cm long. Stipules are large and obovate. Inflorescence are spherical heads about 3-5 cm in diameter. Flowers are yellowish or orange, sepal-cup difficult to distinguish, flower tube 0.7-1 cm long, lobes 5-6. Stamens 5-6, anthers almost stalkless at the mouth of the flower tube, anthers about 1.5 mm long. Style and sigma white, 1.5-1.7 cm long, expanded into a conical or bullet shaped stigma at the tip. Fruit is a fleshy irregularly shaped globular mass containing many seeds. Each fruit is actually an aggregation of many fruits, each produced from a single flower in the inflorescence. Canary Cheesewood is native to Tropical Asia to N. Australia, cultivated in India.