Ekanayakam / Woody Salacia
Salacia fruticosa
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Found in India
- Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering
- February-May
How to identify Ekanayakam
Identify Ekanayakam by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climbing shrub habit.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Cyme.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: February-May.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu.
- Confirm it sits within the Hippocrateaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Ekanayakam.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Salacia fruticosa
- Genus
- Salacia
- Family
- Hippocrateaceae
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Habitat
- Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests, also in the sacred groves and plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- India
- Distribution
- India
- Found in India
- Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- February-May
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded“Brownish yellow flowers are seen in axillary cymes.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flower arrangement
- CymerecordedA branched cluster where the central/terminal flower opens first.“Brownish yellow flowers are seen in axillary cymes.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- BerryrecordedA fleshy fruit with seeds embedded directly in the pulp, no central stone.“Mature fruit is a red berry with 1-3 seeds.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Characters marked “recorded” are for Ekanayakam itself; the rest are typical of the Hippocrateaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Tamil
- Korandi
- Malayalam
- Ekanayakam, Korandi, Ponkarandi
About Ekanayakam
A member of the Hippocrateaceae family, Woody Salacia (Salacia fruticosa) is a climbing shrub. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. It grows in evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests, also in the sacred groves and plains. Flowering and fruiting run from February to May.
Hippocrateaceae
Salacia Family
Ekanayakam belongs to the Hippocrateaceae family.
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