- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Mimusops elengi
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Sapotaceae.
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Bakul tree, Elengi.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- March – April.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native of South East Asia and Northern Australia.
- 💡 Status
- Least Concern.
Description: Large evergreen tree, with milky latex. Leaves simple, alternate, broadly ovate. Flowers axillary, white, sweet-scented, with tomentose sepals. Fruit ovoid berry, yellow or orange-red when ripe.
Uses: Planted as avenue tree. Fruits are edible. Wood is used as timber. Scented corollas are made into garlands.