Kanapalei
Manilkara roxburghiana
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu
- Flowering
- March-December
How to identify Kanapalei
Identify Kanapalei 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.
- Confirm leaf shape: Obovate (egg-shaped, broad at tip).
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: March-December.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu.
- Confirm it sits within the Sapotaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Kanapalei.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Manilkara roxburghiana
- Genus
- Manilkara
- Family
- Sapotaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Dry evergreen and deciduous forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- India
- Distribution
- India
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- March-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Obovate (egg-shaped, broad at tip)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kanapalei itself; the rest are typical of the Sapotaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Typical of the Sapotaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Tamil
- Kanapalei, Nakeliguian
- Kannada
- Renga
- Malayalam
- കാനപ്പാല, Manilkara roxburghiana, കന്നുപാല, Kaanappala
About Kanapalei
A member of the Sapotaceae family, Manilkara roxburghiana is a tree. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu. It grows in dry evergreen and deciduous forests. Flowering and fruiting run from March to December.
Sapotaceae
Sapodilla/Chicle family
Kanapalei belongs to the Sapotaceae family.
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