Trewia polycarpa Benth. (EUPHORBIACEAE)
Common names
Malayalam: Pambara kumbil.
Tamil: Ana-thuvarai.
Description: Trees up to 15 m tall. Leaves subopposite, broadly ovate, up to 20 cm long and often as broad as long, truncate or cordate at base, acuminate at apex; petioles up to 7.5 cm long. Flowers appearing before the leaves. Male flowers in short racemes; female in many-flowered, up to 7.5 cm long racemes. The ovary has 2 cells, and the styles are long, covered with papillae. The drupes have a thin, loculicidally dehiscing pericarp, are globosely ovoid, approximately 1.3 cm in diameter, and densely tomentose. The seeds are rounded at both ends.
Flowering & Fruiting : March – July.
Distribution: India: Western Ghats and West Coast in wet places and along streams. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Endemic.
Uses: Wood soft, used for drums and for the carving images.
