Family: Lauraceae
Synonym: Persea macrantha (Nees) Kosterm., Ocotea glaucescens Nees
Vernacular name: Kulamavu, Kurma, Malamavu, Ooravu, Uramavu
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Evergreen, semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in sacred groves
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka
Flowering and Fruiting: December-May
Key identification features: Evergreen trees with surface pale brown, mottled with dark blotches, scurfy and thinly scaly, rough, exfoliations small, brittle; blaze pinkish; branchlets glabrous. Flowers bisexual, pale yellow, Fruit a berry globose, green with white specks, aromatic; seed one, globose.
Uses: It is a traditional medicinal plant being used in the treatment of asthma and rheumatism.
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