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Schleichera oleosa (Lour.) Oken (syn: Conghas zeylonensis Wall.; Cussambium glabrum Buch.-Ham.; Cussambium oleosum (Lour.) Kuntze; Cussambium pubescens Buch.-Ham.; Cussambium spinosum Buch.-Ham.; Koon oleosus Pierre; Melicocca pubescens (Roth) DC.; Melicocca trijuga (Willd.) Juss.; Ornitrophe triandra Blanco; Pistacia oleosa Lour.; Schleichera aculeata Kostel.; Schleichera oleosa (Lour.) Merr.; Schleichera pubescens Roth; Schleichera trijuga Willd. (ambiguous synonym); Schmidelia triandra Blanco; Scytalia trijuga (Willd.) Roxb. ex DC.; Stadmania pubescens (Roth) Spreng.; Stadmania trijuga (Willd.) Spreng.);
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Pakistan (Pakistani Punjab), Nepal, India (throughout), Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Java, Laos, Lesser Sunda Isl., Sulawesi (incl. Selayar Isl., Kabaena Isl., Muna Isl.), Moluccas (Ambon, Banda, ?Ceram, ?Kei Isl.), Myanmar [Burma] (widespread), Bangladesh as per Catalogue of life;
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Ceylon oak, honey tree, lac tree, macassar oil tree • Gujarati: કુસુમ kusum • Hindi: कुसुम kusum, कुसुम्ब kusumb • Kannada: chakota, sagade • Konkani: कोसिंब kosimb • Malayalam: ദൂതളം duuthalam, പൂവം puuvam, പൂവണം puuvanam • Marathi: कोशिंब koshimb, कुसुंब kusumb • Sanskrit: कुसुंभ kusumbha • Tamil: கொஞ்சி konchi, கும்பாதிரி kumpatiri • Telugu: kosangi;
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Kusum is a beautiful tree with a broad, shady crown, found widespread in Tropical Himalayas (Punjab to Nepal), India, Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, Malaysia.
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This tree is mostly noticed because of its bright red leaves when they are new. In India this happens around March. The leaves are pinnate, with each leaf having 2-4 leaflets. Flowers are tiny, occuring in short dense yellow clusters. The flowers are hardly noticeable. The fruit is about the size of a small plum.
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Kusum fruits are edible, even i have tasted…. Tribals enjoy them..;
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Plant is so beautiful it changes so many shades of leaves…. i am watching its beauty everyday, for last 2 months and taken so many pictures of its different shades… i don’t know whats special about it, but i love its branching pattern to forming dense canopy;
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Wyanad flora #2 | Heralding spring | 15MarIDreqAR02: The Kusumbi colour; Compound leaf with 6 leaflets indicates a Sapindaceae member Schleichera oleosa (Kusum)
20/03/11/YRP/1:
20032011pj1 for id from kaiga: – This is also Kusum [Schleichera oleosa]. Was away for a week birdwatching in the South Garo Hills, Meghalaya – saw the tree there also.
ID REQUESTED:
This tree changes it’s colour in March & it makes the kaiga forest look more colorful. ID requested for the following attachment. Date/Time-: 13/03/11 – 1 1:20
Schleichera oleosa: – yeah plant is so beauuutiful it changes so many shades of leaves…. i am watching its beauty everyday, for last 2 months and taken so many pictures of its different shades… i don’t know whats special about it, but i love its branching pattern to forming dense canopy:):) – Just a question…. are male and female flowers on different branches or trees or is it that the female part is so very small that long stamens are the only thing visible…. ? sending a close up shot…can you confirm please… ?
Kusum leaves beauty: – The colourful leaves reminds of the Fall Season in U.S. During that period most of the trees change their
Insect with eggs:
sending a photograph clicked on 30/03/2011 from Chandigarh. the insect is laying the eggs on the fresh inflorescence of Schleichera oleosa (the Kusum tree). it was in the afternoon around 3:30 pm and the temperature was 15 degree celcius minimum. got interested in this picture coz it may be that the larvae which will emerge out would feed on the mature flowers or may be fruits of the tree. so in a way this tree with not so much of thick canopy even in its full foliage season is source of shelter or food for some other creatures…. – Nice photographs of a Shield Bug [Family Pentatomidae]. – It looks like Tessaratoma javanica Thunberg. My pictures http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20p?see=I_PAO7636&res=640 . Chhattisgarh in Summer: Western Centaur Oakblue on Kusum:
Kusum is a beautiful tree with a broad, shady crown, found widespread in Tropical Himalayas (Punjab to Nepal), India, Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, Malaysia.
This tree is mostly noticed because of its bright red leaves when they are new. In India this happens around March. The leaves are pinnate, with each leaf having 2-4 leaflets. Flowers are tiny, occuring in short dense yellow clusters. The flowers are hardly noticeable. The fruit is about the size of a small plum.
(Ref. Flowers of India) .
Tree for ID: If i were to hazard a guess, I would say that this is Kusum [Schleichera oleosa].
Colourful: 2 correct images as above.
Colours in nature
At Kanakeshwar, Alibag
ID RDS 001 180512: I think the fruits in the first photograph belong to climber Tinospora. Agree with … The tree is Kusum [Schleichera oleosa] but the fruit in the first photograph belong to Gulvel [Tinospora cordifolia]
Tree for ID : Lonavala,Maharashtra : 040612 : AK-3: This is the Kusum [Schleichera oleosa] tree. Thanks for the id. I had guessed it to be Kusum, but as I was wrong last time (it turned out to be Beheda), wanted a confirmation of id. In field both trees appear same esp. red leaves One can differentiate by leaves. Kusum has compound paripinnate leaves around 3 pairs of leaflets clearly seen in these pictures. Thanks for sharing the beautifully coloured foliage.
ID REQUEST 31052011 PJ2:
Id requested for the following attachment. Date/Time-: 29/05/11 – 10:00 Location- Place, Altitude – Kaiga , Uttar Kannada ,Karnataka, 380 mtrs Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type– wild Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb– tree Height/Length– 12 mtr If i am right it is Schleichera trijuga or Schleichera oleosa or Kusum. in my area it is called Litchi by local kids and they eat the fruits’ soft juicy litchi like pulp. Though Kusum is an avenue tree in Delhi, (which, unfortunately, been uprooted on the pretex of development). But I have not seen the fruits and could not think if the fruits could be addible. Kusum fruits are edible, even i have tasted…. Tribals enjoy them.. I think Schleichera oleosa
Schleichera oleosa: (Flowers- 3 images). Very good photographs of a very healthy specimen and properly timed.
ID plz SG5 : 2 images. 4 posts by 4 authors. Need ID of following attachment
Location: Hajimalang’
23/03/2013 This is Schleichera oleosa (Lour.) Oken, SAPINDACEAE
Syn: Pistacia oleosa Lour.; Schleichera trijuga Willd. Agree with … Forms great avenues in Chandigarh with its bright red new leaves
Sapindaceae Fortnight :: Schleichera oleosa SMP 5 : 1 post by 1 author. 4 images.
Schleichera oleosa
कुसुम
Sapindaceae fortnight :: Schleichera oleosa at Nagla bundar-Thane ::PKA5: 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (5).
came across this big tree at Nagla sector of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai.
Sapindaceae fortnight ::Schleichera oleosa at Phansad ::PKA8: : : Attachments (4). 1 post by 1 author.
Schleichera oleosa (Family: Sapindaceae) from Phansad (Maharashtra).
Date/Time: 20-03-2011 / 01:35PM.
Sapindaceae fortnight : Schleichera oleosa from Coimbatore BRS 003 : Attachments (3). 3 posts by 3 authors. Thanks for sharing. I have never seen these fruits. try tasting these fruits too.Yummy and sour-sweet delight
Sapindaceae fortnight :: Schleichera oleosa in northern Western Ghats :: DV09 : 8 images. 3 posts by 2 authors.
Schleichera oleosa (Lour.) Merr.
in northern Western Ghats on various dates
… the riot of fascinating colours I felt as if I visited the tree in its home
Thank you … for the splendid series of pictures Thank you very much …; this native tree is one among few which is generous in splashing vibrant colours! It adds charm and beauty to every deciduous forest.
Sapindaceae Fortnight: Schleichera oleosa from Delhi-GS27 : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4).
Schleichera oleosa, photographed from Delhi Thanks, …,
I find them different from those at Sapindaceae fortnight : Schleichera oleosa from Coimbatore BRS 003
Any reasons ?
My first two photographs are in flowering. Last two in fruit don’t differ from mentioned upload. I don’t see the prickle like formations on your fruits as in … post. Not a big issue … Fruits have pointed tips. Prickles may be absent or few present. You can see one or two in uppermost fruit in my last photograph. Thanks, … for clarifying.
Shilondha SGNP, Jun 2014 :: Requesting ID of this tree :: 26JUN14 :: ARK-47 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (11). Schleichera oleosa Kusum Thank you … of course Kusum…..had never seen Kusum fruits.
Tree 2 for id from Chakrata:: NS June 23 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5).
This large tree with paripinnate leaves was shot from Chakrata area, from almost same location as my last posting..
Is it some Terminalia ?? Appears to be Schleichera oleosa (Kusum)
Tree 1 for id from Chakrata:: NS June 22 : 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (4).
This tree with red foliage was shot from wild in Chakrata area.. can this be Schleichera oleosa ??… Affirmative. This is Kusum [Schleichera oleosa]. Please check the archives of this group for my photographs of this. Yes it is Schleichera oleosa We have this plant in Dhaka City elsewhere Gazipur
Schleichera oleosa for id confirmation-KUK- NS DEC 07 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4).
This is a big tree, planted largely in the campus of KU, Kurukshetra… I have seen this wild in Chakrata area..
Please confirm or correct the id, present shots are from KUK, with male flowers only… The pictures do look like those similar to my collection of Schleichera oleosa
TSPDEC2015-14-187:Images of Schleichera oleosa (Sapindaceae) : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (7)
It is my pleasure to share few images of Schleichera oleosa (Sapindaceae) Habit: Tree Habitat: Semi-evergreen forest Sighting: Chikmagalur, Karnataka, about 1000 msl Date: 03-03-2015 and 06-03-2015
Schleichera oleosa -कुसुंब. : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)
Posting beautiful foliage of Schleichera oleosa -( कुसुंब/ कुसुम) Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary was glistening with these trees at every step.
Date – 26.3.2016
Please help in identification of this. It is a local fruit of Jharkhand.
Local name-Pusra
Date-13th May, 2018
Place-village chewo, Godda, Jharkhand
Thanks, … Efi page available at To me also appear close as per images at Schleichera oleosa OK thanks
I guess it is correct ID.
Schleichera oleosa : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5)
Seeds collected from Jawadhu hills of Eastern ghats. Nice information, sir, how many days it’s taken first photo to last one, I think you can check the date of image through property of the file. what a marvellous suggestion, sir. simply but exactly,                                       
Kusum! – indiantreepix | Google Groups . 210523 Request for species id from Mhow Tehsil, District Indore, MP: 1 image.
Requesting species id. Location: Mhow Tehsil, District Indore, MP
Schleichera oleosa I too agree with … . 210523 Request for species id from Mhow, Indore, MP: 1 image. Pic 2 of 2.
Request for species id from
Mhow Tehsil, Indore district, MP Please check the leaves, if they are compound, it may be Schleichera oleosa. Yes it’s only … . Tree ID? Need help with this tree: Mixed thread: 2 images.
I saw this tree near in Nandi Hills, 40kms from Bangalore City today (1.3.22). The red leaves are the fresh leaves, will turn green soon. Please post close up of the leaves for proper ID. I think appears close to the images at Schleichera oleosa .
. Sapindaceae: Schleichera oleosa: 2 high res. images. . 534 ID wild tree: 21 high res. images. Spondias indica (Wight & Arn.) Airy Shaw & Forman ?? Leaves are not matching Check Schlerichera oleosa It’s leaves are very close to Schlerichera oleosa, but flower arrangement, size, pedicel and anther are not matching, please check collage, right is mine. Oh actually it looks totally different I think it is Schleichera oleosa all right.
From what I’ve been seeing, several individuals of S. oleosa tend to go through a spell of dominant male flowers followed by a bisexual phase. Some of the details you have pointed out can vary; there are instances of long-stalked flowers (both male & bisexual) in the eFI archives also. The variation in the length of the staminal filament can be seen in this photograph. Yes, it is Schleichera oleosa dear …, thank you very much for ID confirmation of my tree and detailed description .
Sapindaceae: Schleichera oleosa: 1 image.
Schleichera oleosa from Paderu forest area Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh . References:
Catalogue of life The Plant List Ver.1.1 Tropicos GRIN (syn. Schleichera trijuga Willd.) Flowers of India India Biodiversity Portal Biotik (syn. Schleichera trijuga Willd.) Wikipedia Biodiversity in India, Volume 4 edited by T. Pullaiah (2006)- details– Schleichera oleosa (syn. Schleichera trijuga Willd.)
Flora of Medak District, Andhra Pradesh, India By T. Pullaiah, Chintala Prabhakar, B. Ravi Prasad Rao (1998)- details-
A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon -, Volume 12 By M. D. Dassanayake (1999)- Schleichera oleosa (syn. Schleichera trijuga Willd.)
Species Information Google Image Result for http://farm1.static.flickr.com/213/451989507_86788a8e6a_m.jpg |
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