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Family: Salvadoraceae	Genus: Salvadora	Species: Salvadora oleoides Decne.( बड़ा पीलू, जाल, पीलू, खारो झाल )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Salvadora stocksii Wight	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Bada Peelu, Jal, Peelu, Kharo Jhal	Flower Type	Spikelet
English / Trade Name		Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Bada Peelu, Jal, Peelu, Kharo Jhal	Fruiting Period	April-June
Altitude	upto 1000 m	Fruit Type	Berry
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruit a berry, subsessile, ovoid-globose yellow when ripe, dark-brown or red when dry, supported by persistent calyx. Seed 1, erect.
Habitat	The natural vegetation is typical of the tropical thorn forest.	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	India, Pakistan, and Arabian peninsula	Bark Details	Bark is gray or whitish-gray.
Distribution in Haryana	Bhiwani, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jind, Kaithal, M. Garh, Mewat, Palwal, Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonepat	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Lence shaped
Description of Species	A much branched, evergreen shrub or a small tree, with short, bent trunk; branches divergent; bark grey. Leaves simple, whitish-green, coriaceous, or somewhat fleshy when mature, linear-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, often mucronate, glabrous; nerves indistinct. Flowers greenish-white, sessile in erect, compact, axillary, paniculate spikes, often clustered and shorter than leaves; calyx cup-shaped, cleft about half-way down into 4, rounded, obtuse lobes; corolla lobe obovate-oblong, obtuse. Stamens 4, epi-petalous, alternating with corolla lobes. Fruit a berry, subsessile, ovoid-globose yellow when ripe, dark-brown or red when dry, supported by persistent calyx. Seed 1, erect.	Leaf Details	Leaves simple, whitish-green, coriaceous, or somewhat fleshy when mature, linear-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, often mucronate, glabrous; nerves indistinct.

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