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Hydnocarpus kurzii

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Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Achariaceae
Common name: Chaulmugra(Beng.); Chaulmoogra (Eng.).
Life cycle: Perennial
Native Range: Native to India and Myanmar.

Hydnocarpus kurzii is a evergreen tree. Their leaves alternate, stipules small, usually early caducous. Flowers hypogynous, in axillary , branched cymes, these sometimes very short or reduced to fascicles or to a solitary flower. The fruit baccate , globose , or ovoid , rarely elongate.