Nawadun, Nawada, Hulan-Idda

• Common Name In Sri Lanka:

  Nawadun, Nawada, Hulan-Idda

• Scientific Name:

  Shorea stipularis thw.

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• Average Height:

  

  45 m

• Identification

  Bole is tall, straight, cylindrical, withlow concave rounded buttress and crown is emergent. Barksurface is chocolatebrown in colour. Young leaves are red.Leaf lamina is 6–15 x 3–11 cm, very variable insize, lanceolate to broadly oblong-ovate.Panicles are 12 cm long. Fruit pedicel is 4 mm long. Fruit is 3 x 2 cm and ovoid in shape.

• Habitat

  Rain forest canopy

• Special Notes

  Resin-incense, Wood-construction timber, Bark-arrests fermentation.