Crateva magna (Lour.) DC
Three-leaf Caper Garlic Pear tree
Deciduous tree to 10-20 m high leaves digitatly trifoliate, leaflets narrowly elliptic to lanceolate flowers before the leaves, pinkish white, in terminal corymbs fruit a berry, globose or ovoid, yellowish-grey rind woody, scurfy, 4-5 x 25-35 cm seeds brown, embedded in pulp
The tree is harvested from the wild for local use, mainly as a medicine and source of wood. The plant is often cultivated as an ornamental, especially within its native range.
Capparis magna Lour, Crateva nurvala  Buch – Ham
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