Diospyros montana Roxb. L.
| Kannada Name : | Jagalaganti |
| Common Name : | Mountain persimmon, mottled ebony |
| Family Name : | Ebenaceae |
| Scientific Name : | Diospyros montana |
| Species Type : | Native |
| Phenology : | Deciduous |
| Conservation Status : | Least concern |
| Flowering Period : | March to April |
| Fruiting Period : | October |
| Origin : | Tropical Asia |
Uses
Used medicinally; especially unripe fruits are used in traditional medicine. Tender shoots are cooked and eaten.
Description
Deciduous, dioeceous trees upto 20 m tall. Bark smooth, grey or yellowish-grey in color, yellow inside, exudate watery. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate, ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, margin entire, apex obtuse, subacute or obtusely accuminate. Flowers yellowish green or green to greenish-white, unisexual. Male flowers in axillary umbel, tetramerous. Female flowers solitary, axillary, tetramerous. Fruit a berry, 1.5-2 cm across, ovoid to obconical, yellow to orange, glaucous; calyx foliaceous, slightly enlarged; seeds 3-6, rough, black.
