Kunde / Native Olive
Chionanthus ramiflorus
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Kunde
Identify Kunde by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a tree habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Deeply fringed thread-like petals.
- Confirm leaf shape: Orbicular.
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Panicle.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Chionanthus ramiflorus
- Genus
- Chionanthus
- Family
- Oleaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Moist deciduous, evergreen and shola forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- India
- Distribution
- India, Myanmar, S.China, Taiwan, Malesia, Australia
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- OrbicularrecordedRounded, roughly circular.“The trunk and branches are pale, the leafy twigs are circular in cross section.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kunde itself; the rest are typical of the Oleaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
- Flower arrangement
- PaniclerecordedA branching cluster of clusters.“The inflorescence is a panicle up to 12 cm (4.7 in) long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- DruperecordedA fleshy fruit with a single hard stone/pit enclosing the seed.“The fruit is a blue-black, ovoid drupe about 25 mm (1.0 in) long and 15 mm (0.6 in) diameter.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Panicle
- Fruit
- Drupe
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kunde itself; the rest are typical of the Oleaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Kannada
- ಕುಂದೆ Kunde, ಕವುಂಡೆ kavuṇḍe, ಟೊಂಡೆ Tonde
- Malayalam
- Vellaedali, Kaattuchakkalathi, വെള്ള എടലി
About Kunde
A member of the Oleaceae family, Native Olive (Chionanthus ramiflorus) is a tree. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh and 4 other states. It grows in moist deciduous, evergreen and shola forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Oleaceae
Olive/Jasmine family
Kunde belongs to the Oleaceae family.
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