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Family: Apocynaceae	Genus: Alstonia	Species: Alstonia scholaris (Linn.) R. Br.( सप्तपर्णी )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Echites scholaris Linn.	Flower Color	Greenish
Common Name	Chhatian	Flower Type	Cyme
English / Trade Name	Devils tree	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Saptparni	Fruiting Period	April-June
Altitude	Upto 900 m	Fruit Type	Follicle
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruit ,30 - 60 cm long and 0.3 cm in diameter, cylindric, pendulous in clusters, become completely averted after dehiscence
Habitat	Moist deciduous forests and sacred groves, also in the plains	Bark Type	Rugged
Distribution	Taiwan, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Australia	Bark Details	Bark grey rough and yellowish from inside, branches whorled, young branches lenticellate, when he bark is injured a milky juice comes out
Distribution in Haryana	Ambala, Bhiwani, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, M. Garh, Mewat, Morni-Pinjore, Palwal, Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonepat, Yamuna Nagar	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Whorled (leaves in groups of 3 or more along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Obovate
Description of Species	Trees upto 35 m tall, glabrous. Bark gray, branchlets copiously lenticellate. Leaves in whorls of 3–10, leaf blade narrowly obovate to very narrowly spatulate, leathery, base cuneate, apex usually rounded; Cymes dense, pubescent, peduncle 4–7 cm. Pedicel usually as long as or shorter than calyx. Corolla white, tube; lobes broadly ovate or broadly obovate,Fruit follicles distinct, linear, Seeds oblong, margin ciliate, ends with tufts of hairs.	Leaf Details	4 - 7 in whorls, coriaceous, oblong - lanceolate, obtuse or bluntly acuminate, dark green above, pale and covered with whitish bloom beneath, base tapering, main nerves numerous, nearly horizontal, parallel, uniting in an intramarginal nerve

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