Ipetta, I-petta

• Common Name In Sri Lanka:

  Ipetta, I-petta

• Scientific Name:

  Cyathocalyx zeylanica champ. ex hook. f. &thoms.

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• Average Height:

  

  Vary in height

• Identification

  Bark is smooth and pale brown in colour. Leaf-blade is 10—24 cm long, 5—9 cm wide. Seeds are semi-circular in outline. Seeds are 3.5—5 cm long, 2—2.5 cm broad and 5—8 mm thick. Seeds smell like nutmeg when dissected.  Pulp is adherent to seeds.

• Habitat

  Pioneers of disturbed rain forest.

• Special Notes

  Wood-lacquered sticks, flowers-petals chewed with betel.