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Wild Berry
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Common name: Wild Berry, wild tea • Adi: etjun jayun, nyanyur • Assamese: ঔৱাপাত awuapat, মেচপৰা machhpora, চেচু sesu • Bengali: রঞ্জনী ramjani • Dogri: डुमटू dumtoo • Garo: samnakhatok • Garhwali: gadchiana, जिउंदली jiundali • Hindi: बुरकनी burkani, कृमिघ्न फल kramighna phal • Kannada: ಗುಡ್ಡೆ ಹರಗಿ gudde haragi, ಮಂಡಸೆ mandase, ತನಿಪಾಲ thanipaala • Khasi: dieng sohjala-tyrkai • Konkani: आटकी ataki • Kumaoni: gadchiana, जिउंदली jiundali, nagapadhera • Lepcha: purmo-kung • Lotha: mungshen tssung • Magadhi: तामोम्बन tamomban • Malayalam: കിരിതീ kirithi, കുറ്റിവിഴാൽ kuttivizhaal, വണ്ണാത്തി vannathi, വണ്ണൻമരം vannanmaram • Mao (in Manipur): kohravii • Marathi: आटकी ataki • Mech (people): phudupjoh, sirkhi • Mising (or Miri): kisu-tanop, tasing-mon • Mizo: ar-ngeng • Nepali: कालो बिलौने kaalo bilaunae • Nyishi: chonium • Synteng (or Jaintia): dieng-pyllein-dakha • Tamil: பெரிய உன்னி periya-unni • Tulu: ತನಿಪಾಲೆ thanipaale Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Maesa indica    Family: Primulaceae (Primrose family)
Synonyms: Baeobotrys indica, Maesa dubia, Maesa indica var. perrottetiana
Wild Berry is a large, evergreen, glabrous shrub, with a thin, warty bark. Leaves are ovate-oblong to elliptic-lanceshaped, 7.5-15 cm long, 3-7 cm broad, toothed, pointed to long-pointed, base rounded to narrowed, stalk 1-2.5 cm long. Flowers are small, 4-5 mm across, white, usually in branched racemes in leaf axils, shorter than leaves. Calyx is bell-shaped. Petals are ovate, blunt, rotate, minutely toothed at margins. Berry is 5-7 mm across, spherical, whitish, surrounded by persistent calyx. It has soft, brownish wood which is used as fuel. Fruit and bark are said to be used in poisoning fish, and leaves are used for making curry in some parts of India. Flowering: January-April.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale Photographed in Maharashtra.
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