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Rubiaceae (madder, bedstraw, or coffee family) » Neolamarckia cadamba

nee-oh-la-MAR-kee-uh -- named for Jean Baptiste de Monet Lamarck, French naturalist kuh-duhm-bah -- from Sanskrit kadamba, name for this plant

commonly known as: burrflower tree, kadam, leichhardt pine • Assamese: kadam, roghu • Bengali: কদম kadam, নীপ nipa • Garo: mi-bol • Hindi: कदम्ब kadamb • Kannada: kadam, kaduavalatige • Malayalam: katampu • Marathi: कदंब kadamb, नीव nhiv • Mizoram: banphar • Oriya: priyakah • Sanskrit: हरिप्रिय haripriya, कदम्ब kadamba • Tamil: கடம்பம் katampam, வெள்ளை கதம்பு vellaikkatampu • Telugu: కదంబకము kadambakamu

Origin: South and south-east Asia

... tropical evergreen tree ... attains 45 m height, without branches for more than 25 m ... 1-1.6 m diameter, but normally less ... sometimes with buttresses.

... the crown is umbrella-shaped and the branches are characteristically arranged in tiers.

... in Australia, this tree is known as the Leichhardt pine (not a pine at all) ... it is not to be confused with Leichhardt tree (Nauclea orientalis) which has deeply furrowed bark, while the former has smooth bark ... both plants belong to the same family, Rubiaceae and have globose flower-heads ... both these trees are named after the German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt.

References: Flowers of IndiaENVIS - FRLHTWikipedia
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Author Dinesh Valke from Thane, India

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