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Family: Apocynaceae	Genus: Blyttia	Species: Blyttia spiralis (Forssk.) D.V.Field & J.R.I.Wood ( आकारी बेल, धोदहियल )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Pentatropis spiralis (Forssk.) Decne., Asclepias spiralis Forssk.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Aakari Bel, Milk weed	Flower Type	Cyme
English / Trade Name		Flowering Period	Oct-Dec
Vernacular /Local Name	Aakari Bel, Dhodiyal	Fruiting Period	Oct-Dec
Altitude	Up to 1000 m	Fruit Type	Follicle
Habit	Climber	Fruit Details	Fruits a follicle lanceolate, tapering to a beak, glabrous; seeds ovate, flattned, minutely and irregularly crenate at the lower and end.
Habitat		Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Arabia and Tropical Africa.	Bark Details	Smooth, green when young. Old branches with rough corky bark.
Distribution in Haryana	Bhiwani, Jind, Karnal, Panipat	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	A perennial, more or less glabrous, twinning shrub, with watery sap. Stem slender, glabrous or puberulent, green. Leaves ovate or oblong, elliptic or linear, obtuse, usually mucronate, more less fleshy, glabrous, base rounded. Flowers greenish, in lateral umbellate cymes; peduncles slender, rarely absent; pedicels slender; calyx deeply divided, sparsely pubescent; corolla divided almost to the base; lobes narrowly linear from a triangular, glabrous outside, minutely puberulent inside, the apex often curled. Corona lobes arising above the base of the staminal column, slightly shorter than the column. Fruits a follicle lanceolate, tapering to a beak, glabrous; seeds ovate, flattned, minutely and irregularly crenate at the lower and end.	Leaf Details	Leaves ovate or oblong, elliptic or linear, obtuse, usually mucronate, more less fleshy, glabrous, base rounded.

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