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Antiaris toxicaria - Valkala

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{{stub}}[[File:Antiaris toxicaria Lesch. (8365314632).jpg|thumb|right|''Valkala'', ''Antiaris toxicaria'']]Bark cloth tree is a deciduous to evergreen, small to large tree with a crown of short, spreading branches; it usually grows up to 45 metres tall though exceptional specimens up to 60 metres are known. The bole can be up to 150cm in diameter and is usually buttressed. The tree is quite widely exploited for its timber and is also used medicinally. It has excellent prospects for use as a pioneer species and, because it casts a dense shade, it is sometimes planted as a roadside tree.
==Uses==
==Habit==
{{Habit|Tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|Alternate|Lofty trees to 50 m high; bole buttressed; bark 10-15 mm thick greyish-white, smooth, pustular-lenticellate, lenticels in vertical rows; blaze creamy white; exudation watery or milky. Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious; stipule small, lateral, connate, cauducous; petiole 3-8 mm long, stout, velvety; lamina 6.5-15 x 2.5-5 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, base round, obtuse or cordate, apex acuminate or obtusely acuminate, margin entire or distantly crenulate, coriaceous, glabrous, scabrous beneath; lateral nerves 6-11 pairs, parallel, looped near the margin, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. }}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual|Spikes|Greenish-yellow|3-8|Flowers unisexual, greenish-yellow, minute, in spikes; male receptacle to 1.5 cm across, axillary, 3-4 together, tomentose; peduncle velvety; receptacle surrounded by imbricating bracts; tepals 3 or 4, spathulate, imbricate; filaments erect; anthers yellow; female flowers solitary in an involucre of few connate bracts, tepals absent; ovary superior, adnate to the involucre, 1-celled, ovule 1, pendulous; style arms 2, subulate, recurved. }}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Drupe|1.5-2.5 x 1-2 cm||pyriform or obovoid, fleshy, scarlet, velvety; seed 10-16 mm long.||}}
===Other features===
<ref name="chemical composition">["chemistry"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/7480"morphology"]</ref>
<ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[ "Cultivation"]</ref>
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[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Moraceae]]
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