- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Magnolia champaca
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Magnoliaceae.
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Champak, Ponchembagam.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- More or less throughout the year.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native of Indo-Malayan realm.
- 💡 Status
- Least Concern.
Description: Large, evergreen tree. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, shining above, pubescent beneath. Flowers axillary, yellow, fragrant. Fruit aggregate of follicles.
Uses: Grown in gardens for their fragrant flowers. Bark is medicinal.