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Asian Bushbeech
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Asian Bushbeech
ative Photo: Tabish
Common name: Asian Bushbeech, Asiatic beechberry, Badhara bush, Oval-leafed gmelina • Chinese: 亚洲石梓 Ya zhou shi zi • Hindi: Badhara • Kannada: ಗುಲುಡು Guludu, ಶಿವನೆ Shivane, ಶಿವನಿ Shivani, ಶಿವನ್ನಿ Shivanni • Marathi: काळी शिवण Kalishivan • Malayalam: Kumil, Mulkumizhu • Oriya: Gombhari • Sanskrit: Vikarini, Gopabhadra • Sinhala: දෙමට Demata, ගැට්ට දෙම්මට Gatta demmata • Tamil: நிலக் குமிழ் Nilak kumizh, Mulkumizh • Telugu: Kavavagummudu, Peddanelli, Gumadi • Urdu: Badhara
Botanical name: Gmelina asiatica    Family: Verbenaceae (Verbena family)
Synonyms: Gmelina parvifolia
Asian Bushbeech large straggling or scrambling deciduous bush or shrub, rather hardy, to about 3 m tall, or rarely a semi-evergreen tree to 8 m tall, sometimes prostrate, usually spiny, sometimes unarmed, much-branched, very variable in size and habit; bark yellowish- or brownish-white, thin, smooth; wood hard, grey; branchlets horizontal, rigid, often compressed. Leaves are small. Leaf stalks 0.5-3 cm long, slender. Leaf-blades varying from oval or ovate to elliptic, obovate, somewhat rhomboid, or triangular in outline, very variable, mostly 1-9.5 (rarely up to 13) cm long, 1.5-6 cm wide, entire or 3-5 lobed when young. Flowers are large, borne in short cymules in mostly racemelike panicles 2.5-5 cm long. Flowers are yellow or bright sulphur-yellow, 4-5 cm long, curved bell-shaped. Asian Bushbeech is found in India to SE Asia.
Identification credit: Tabish Photographed at Qutub Minar, Delhi.
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