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Kaori Crossberry
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Kaori Crossberry
E Native Photo: Pravin Kawale
Common name: Kaori Crossberry • Assamese: কুকুৰ সূতা Kukur-Huta • Bengali: পানিসৰা Panisara • Hindi: भंसुली Bhansuli, कक्की Kakki, काओरी Kaori, कठभेमल Kathbhemal, फिरसन Phirsan • Kannada: ಗುರಗುರಿ Gurguri, ಜಾವನಿಗಾಲೆ Javanigale, ಜಾವನಿಗಡಲೆ Javanigadale, ಕಾಡು ಪತಂಗ Kadu Patang, ಕಾಯೋರಿ Kayori, ಮುರಿಗೆ Murige, ಸಣ್ಣ ಸಲ್ಲಿ Sanna Salli • Khasi: Dieng Tiewser, Dieng Tyrbhong • Konkani: गुरगुरी Gurguri • Malayalam: ആനക്കൊട്ടിമരം Anakkottimaram, കല്ലായി Kallayi, നറുത Narutha • Marathi: कावरी Kawri • Nepali: स्याल पुच्छ्रे Syaal Puchchhre, हर्श Harsh • Odia: କାଠ ବିମଳା Kath Bimla, କୁଳକାଠରି Kulokathri • Tamil: ஆனைகட்டி மரம் Anaikatti Maram, நாரத்தை Narathai, உடப்பை Udapai • Telugu: పెగల Pegala, పొత్రికి Potriki, తెగలి Tegali • Mizo: Varita-Belkang Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Grewia serrulata    Family: Tiliaceae (Falsa family)
Synonyms: Grewia lanceolata, Grewia sepiaria, Grewia barberi
Kaori Crossberry is a small tree with slender branches, bark dark grey. Leaves are simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral; leaf-stalk 5-10 mm, slender, star-shaped-velvet-hairy, swollen tipped; blade 5-13 x 2-5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceshaped, oblong-lanceshaped or ovate-lanceshaped, base pointed or round, tip tapering or caudate-tapering, margin sawtoothed, 3-ribbed from base, lateral nerves 4-5 pairs, pinnate, prominent. Flowers are bisexual, yellowish-white, borne in leaf-axils in umbellate cymes; flower-cluster-stalks 3 times longer than leaf-stalk; sepals 5, free, 3-nerved, star-shaped velvet-hairy outside; petals 5, white, ovate, shorter than sepals, often notched; stamens many, inserted on a short glandular torus; style longer than stamens; stigma fringed. Fruit is a drupe, 1-4 lobed, spherical, hairless, greenish-black when ripe. Kaori Crossberry is found in Indo-Malesia and Tropical Africa including Western Ghats and East Himalaya.
Identification credit: Pravin Kawale Photographed in Maharashtra & Delhi.
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