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Kanara Sapphire Berry
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Kanara Sapphire Berry
E Native Photo: Prashant Awale
Common name: Kanara Sapphire Berry
Botanical name: Symplocos macrocarpa subsp. kanarana    Family: Symplocaceae (Saphire-berry family)
Synonyms: Symplocos kanarana

Kanara Sapphire Berry is a tree. Leaves are elliptic, with a tapering tip, rounded toothed to sawtoothed, with 5-8 pairs of nerves confluent in intramarginal vein, 7.5-115 x 2.5-6 cm. Flowers are borne in spikes up to 45 cm. Flowers are whitish with prominently protruding stamens. Berry is 2.5-3 x 1 cm, ellipsoid; endocarp 6-ribbed. Kanara Sapphire Berry is found in South W India, mostly in Uttar Kanara.

Identification credit: Navendu Pāgé Photographed in Nanya Baireshwara, Karnataka.

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