Description
Terminalia catappa almond 50 seeds
Terminalia catappa is a large, handsome, deciduous tree, 32mt. tall having a bole of 12m, with a smooth grey bark and whorled branches, found in the Andamans. It is also cultivated in gardens for edible fruits. Stems somewhat buttressed at the base, fluted slightly above; leaves large, obovate, usually crowded at the end of the branchlets; flowers white, star-shaped, in slender racemes; drupes yellowish or reddish, ellipsoidal, distinctly compressed, endocarp, enclosing the edible seed.The tree is common in the Andamans in the beach forest ofn the raised sandy beaches and extends into the forests behind where it is confined to sandy or shingly soils.