Diospyros paniculata

IUCN Red List Status: Vulnerable (VU)
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Diospyros paniculata Dalzell, Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 109 1852.;
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dy-oh-SPY-ros or dy-oh-SPEE-ros — wheat (fruit) of the gods
pan-ick-yoo-LAY-tuh or pan-ick-yoo-LAH-tuh — referring to the flower clusters (panicles)
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commonly known as: panicle-flowered ebony • Kannada: ಕರೆ ಮರ kare mara • Malayalam: ഇല്ലെകട്ട illekatta, കാരി kari, കരിവെള്ള karivella • Marathi: टेंबुरणी temburni • Sanskrit: तिन्दुक tinduka • Tamil: காரி kari, கருந்துவரை karu-n-tuvarai
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Endemic to: central and southern Western Ghats (of India)
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Dioecious trees, to 15 m high, bark 7-8 mm thick, smooth, black often with grey blotches; blaze dull red; branchlets angular, pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 7-10 mm long, stout, wrinkled, puberulent when young; lamina 12-20 x 4-7 cm, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, base acute, round or cuneate, apex acute, acuminate or obtusely acuminate, margin entire, reflexed near the base, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-9 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, surface finely reticulate. Flowers unisexual greenish-yellow; male flowers: in 3-5 together in short panicled cymes with a pair of ovate-cordate bracts; bracts 1 x 0.8 cm, pubescent; calyx 10 x 12 mm, globose, 5-angled, minutely hispid, deeply lobed; lobes-5, ovate-obtuse, margin reflexed, prominently veined, pubescent; corolla dull or creamy white, tube 12 mm long, pentagonal, narrowed above, hispid; lobes 5, 8 x 4 mm, oblong; stamens 16-20 in pairs, equal; anthers linear, acute; pistillode absent; female flowers; solitary, axillary; pedicel to 2 cm long; bracts larger than those of the male flowers; calyx glabrescent; staminodes 10; ovary superior, 4-celled, ovule 1 in each cell, tomentose; stigma 4, unequal. Fruit a berry, 3-4 x 2-3 cm, ovoid to obovoid, obtuse, obtusely 5-angled, yellowish-brown, puberulous; calyx 1.5 x 3 cm, saccate; seeds few, 2 x 0.8 cm.

request for id of a tree.
pics taken at Mollem sanctuary, Goa on 30th Jan 2010.

Looks like Artabotrys to me!

Diospyros paniculata fruiting with persistent calyx.

May be the Persimmon. Diospyros kaki.

Could be a species of Drypetes.

only species of Drypetes sp far in efi: Drypetes sepiaria

This seems to be Diospyros paniculata Dalz., the 4-lobed calyx with ovate lobes indicate to that species.
This species is common in W.Ghats of Kerala & Tamil Nadu.
In Tamil it is called Kari, Karunthuvarei and in Malayalam: Kari, Karivela.

Date: 28th December 2014
Place: Someshwara Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka
Habit: Short tree

Diospyros sp., most probably D. paniculata, a W.Ghats endemic.

Are all Diospyros sp dioecious?  If so, and if you are planting such a sp. in an afforestation drive, how does one ensure pollination and seed dispersion?.

Diospyros paniculata seems to be a close one.

Not close one, but correct one.

Thank you …, Diospyros paniculata is closely matching.

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Names of Plants in India :: Diospyros paniculata Dalzell:

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