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Terminalia catappa - Young fruits - Click to enlarge!

Young fruits; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Terminalia catappa - Inflorescence (flower buds) - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence (flower buds); Nigeria; 1/2007 © Ralf Biechele

Terminalia catappa - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Terminalia catappa - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Terminalia catappa - Fruit almost ripe - Click to enlarge!

Fruit almost ripe; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Terminalia catappa - Top and lower side of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Top and lower side of leaf; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Terminalia catappa - Ripe fruit cracked open - Click to enlarge!

Ripe fruit cracked open; Kokrobitey Institute, Kokrobite, Greater Accra, Ghana; 3/2007 © Jörn Germer

Terminalia catappa - Bark - Click to enlarge!

Bark; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Terminalia catappa - Habit of young tree - Click to enlarge!

Habit of young tree; Nigeria; 1/2007 © Ralf Biechele

Terminalia catappa - Habit solitary tree - Click to enlarge!

Habit solitary tree; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 95
Date of entry: 15.07.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Tropical Almond

German: Indischer Mandelbaum, Katappenbaum, Seemandelbaum

Mandarin: 榄仁树 (lan ren shu)

Portuguese: Amendoeira-da-praia

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2558)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2456)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2078)

      Order: Myrtales (76)

        Family: Combretaceae (9) (family description)

          Genus: Terminalia (4)

           Epithet: catappa L. (1)

catappa => from the indo-malayan name katapang, ketapang for Terminalia catappa

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: white

External links

Check for Terminalia catappa at World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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