Paniala / Coffee Plum
Flacourtia jangomas
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Meghalaya, Manipur, Uttarakhand & more
- Flowering
- March-October
How to identify Paniala
Identify Paniala 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: Sour-sweet edible fruit (coffee plum).
- Confirm leaf shape: Ovate (egg-shaped, broad at base).
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: March-October.
- In India, compare location records such as Meghalaya, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Flacourtiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Paniala.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Flacourtia jangomas
- Genus
- Flacourtia
- Family
- Flacourtiaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Dry deciduous and Evergreen forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- Widely cultivated in India, Southeast Asia and East Africa
- Found in India
- Meghalaya, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- March-October
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Ovate (egg-shaped, broad at base)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Paniala itself; the rest are typical of the Flacourtiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Typical of the Flacourtiaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Talispatri, पनियाला Paniala, पानी आमला Pani amla
- Bengali
- Paniala, টিপা ফল, টিপটিপানি
- Tamil
- Vaiyyankarai
- Telugu
- Kuragayi
- Kannada
- ಚಂಚಲಿ Chanchali, ಚಂಕಲಿ Chankali, ಗೊರಜಿ Goraji
- Malayalam
- Vayyamkaitha, ലൂബി
- Marathi
- Champeran, तालीस
About Paniala
A member of the Flacourtiaceae family, Coffee Plum (Flacourtia jangomas) is a tree. In India it has been recorded in Meghalaya, Manipur, Uttarakhand and 6 other states. It grows in dry deciduous and Evergreen forests. Flowering and fruiting run from March to October.
Uses
It is grown for parts that are eaten and long used in traditional medicine. Those medicinal uses are traditional attributions, not medical advice.
Flacourtiaceae
Flacourtia Family
Paniala belongs to the Flacourtiaceae family.
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