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Diospyros atrata

Diospyros atrata
Photo: Pierre André Leclercq, CC BY-SA 4.0

Diospyros atrata is a medium-elevation tree in the ebony family (Ebenaceae) that can reach about 25 metres, native to wet evergreen forests in the Western Ghats of India and Kandy district in Sri Lanka. It is a forest canopy tree rather than a garden or houseplant, so there is little cultivation guidance.

Family
Ebenaceae (Eben family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Sri Lanka (Kandy Distr.)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Diospyros atrata is a tree in the family Ebenaceae. It commonly grows to 25 metres tall. The plant can be seen in subcanopy trees in medium elevation wet evergreen forests between 1000 and 1400 m in Western Ghats- South Sahyadri, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu in India and from Kandy district in Sri Lanka

Common names include "Kalu Kenda" in Sinhala language, and "Gusvakendu" in Tamil.

Other Diospyros plants

Giant Diospyros · Diospyros acapulcensis · Diospyros acris · Diospyros aculeata · Diospyros acuminata · Diospyros agnitser · Diospyros alatella · Diospyros andamanica · Diospyros apiculata · Diospyros areolata · Diospyros artanthifolia · Diospyros arupaj

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diospyros atrata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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