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- Common name:
- Chilla
- Category:
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Trees, Shrubs
- Family:
- Flacourtiaceae
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade
- Water:
- Normal
- Primarily grown for:
- Foliage
- Flowering season:
- Flowers are inconspicuous
- Foliage color:
- Green
- Plant Height or length:
- 8 to 12 meters
- Plant Spread or Width:
- 4 to 6 meters
- Plant Form:
- Upright or Erect
- Special Character:
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- Attracts birds
- Recommended for creating shade
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Less than a hundred, Old variety plants may be difficult to get
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Plant Description:
- -A small tree with a dense canopy of interlacing branchlets and downy twigs and leaves.
-The fruit is pounded to a milky acrid pulp used to stupefy fish.
-Leaves up to 16 cm long with a pointed tips and rounded base. Margins minutely toothed downy, especially underneath.
-Fruit up to 3 mm long ovoid green at first yellow when ripe pulp reddish.
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Growing tips:
- - A fairy easy plant to grow.
- Plant, preferable in full sunlight.
- Good fertile soils with regular irrigation will result in a dense canopy.
