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Family: Santalaceae	Genus: Osyris	Species: Osyris lanceolata Hochst. & Steud.( दालिम )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Osyris arborea Wall.	Flower Color	Greenish
Common Name	Dalmi, Dalima	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	East African Sandalwood	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Dalima	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Up to 1000 m	Fruit Type	Drupe
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruit small, edible, 1-seeded drupe, fleshy, egg-shaped, and green at first, turning yellow and becoming bright red to purple-black when ripe; crowned with a persistent calyx.
Habitat	Dry montane forest, evergreen bushland or scrub, usually in rocky places, also where the original vegetation has been cleared; forest margins; grassland; rocky thickets	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Europe - Portugal, Spain; northern, eastern and southern Africa; through Arabia to Indian subcontinent, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos.	Bark Details	A grey smooth bark (later thick and rough).
Distribution in Haryana	Morni-Pinjore	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Oblong
Description of Species	Evergreen, glabrous shrubs; upper branches sharply 3-gonous. Leaves subsessile or short petioled, elliptic-oblanceolate, base cuneate, entire, mucronate, coriaceous, glaucous. Flowers small, polygamous, pale-green; male flowers 8-10, in axillary umbellate cymes; female or 2-sexual flowers solitary, axillary and pendulous. Peritanth lobes 3, ovate-triangular, glabrous. Stamens 3, opposite to perianth lobes. Drupes subglobose, yellow or red when ripe.	Leaf Details	Leaves subsessile or short petioled, elliptic-oblanceolate, base cuneate, entire, mucronate, coriaceous, glaucous

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