- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Terminalia catappa
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Combretaceae
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Indian Almond tree, Natu-Badam
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- January – March.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native of Malaysia.
- 💡 Status
- Least Concern.
Description: Large deciduous tree. Leaves clustered at the ends of branchlets, obovate. Flowers greenish-white, in spikes up to 10 cm long. Fruit ellipsoid, 2-ridged drupe.
Uses: Often planted as avenue tree. Kernels are edible.