Common name: Indian Raspberry • Malayalam: എരുമച്ചുള്ളി Erumachchulli, കാട്ടുമുന്തിരി Kaattumunthiri • Tamil: இந்தியன் ராஸ்பெர்ரி Indiyan Raasperri
Source: Names of Plants in India
Indian Raspberry is a shrub with stems densely
woolly. Leaves are up to 13 x 10 cm, shallowly 5-lobed, heart-shaped at
base, spiny-toothed, minutely rough above, densely white-velvety below,
nerves prickly below, stalk 5 cm long. Flowers are borne in leaf axils
or at branch ends, densely velvety. Bracts are 10 x 6 cm, obovate,
flower-stalks 8 mm long, sepals 10 x 5 mm, united below, petals
obovate, white, ovary densely hairy. Fruit is 2 x 1 mm, yellow,
hairless. Indian Raspberry is found in Indo-Malaysia - within India it
is found in Kerala.
Identification credit: Dinesh Valke
Photographed at Eravilulam National Park, Munnar, Kerala.
• Is this flower misidentified?
If yes,
Your name: Your email: Your comments
The flower labeled Indian Raspberry is ...