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Family: Sterculaceae	Genus: Pterygota	Species: Pterygota alata (Roxb.) R.Br.( तुला, बुद्धा कोकोनट )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Clompanus alata(Roxb.) Kuntze, Sterculia alata Roxb., Pterygota roxburghii Schott & Endl.,Sterculia coccinea Wall ,Sterculia heynei Bedd.	Flower Color	Brownish
Common Name	Tula, Buddha's coconut tree	Flower Type	Panicle
English / Trade Name	Tula, Buddha's coconut tree	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Tula	Fruiting Period	April-June
Altitude	Up to 700m	Fruit Type	Follicle
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Follicles, globose or ovoid, woody; seeds 30, winged.
Habitat	Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests	Bark Type	Fissured
Distribution	South Asia and Myanmar	Bark Details	Bark grey, longitudinally arranged lenticels; blaze yellowish cream.
Distribution in Haryana	Morni-Pinjore	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	Deciduous trees, to 35 m high, bole straight, buttressed; bark, greyish with light and dark patches, smooth; blaze creamy yellow; young parts covered with dense golden brown stellate-pubescence. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clutered at twig ends; stipules lateral, caducous and leaving scar; broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, apex acute or slightly acuminate, base cordate or subtruncate, margin entire or slightly undulate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; tertiary nerves distantly reticulo-percurrent. Flowers unisexual or polygamous, panicles, calyx 5-partite, male flowers: staminal column cylindric bearing 4-5 phalanges, female flowers staminodes round the base of the ovary; carpels 5, free, superior, ovules many in each; style short, recurved; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit of 3-5 follicles, seeds oblong, brown winged.	Leaf Details	Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clutered at twig ends; stipules lateral, caducous and leaving scar; broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, apex acute or slightly acuminate, base cordate or subtruncate, margin entire or slightly undulate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; tertiary nerves distantly reticulo-percurrent.

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