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Denkanikottai south-western extreme of the Deccan plateau, east of the

western ghats.

Rain falls during the monsoon season from about June to

October. March to June can be very dry and hot, with
temperatures regularly exceeding 40 °C. The plateau's
climate is drier than that on the coasts and is arid in
places.

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NATIVE TREES @DENKANIKOTTAI (South-western region of Deccan Plateau)

Species/Common Botanical Name Advantage1 Advantage 2 Evergreen/ Category
Name Decidious

1 Pongamia Pongamia pinnata Mulch Biofuel Decidious Tree

2 Neem Azadirachta Medicine Evergreen Tree
indica
3 Teak Tectona grandis Timber Decidious Canopy
4 Aavaram Senna auriculata Flower Legume Evergreen Shrub
5 Drumstick Moringa oleifera Food Fodder Decidious Subtree
6 Tamarind Tamarindus indica Fruit Legume Evergreen Tree
7 Mango Mangifera indica, Fruit Evergreen Canopy
8 Sandal wood Santalum album Wood Evergreen Subtree
9 Jamun Syzygium cumini Fruits Evergreen Tree
10 Golden Shower Cassia fistula Flowering Decidious Subtree
11 Nagamaram Couroupita Timber Decidious
(Cannon Ball) guianensis
12 Elanthai palam Ziziphus jujuba Fruit Decidious Subtree
(jujube)
13 Curry Murraya koenigii Food Medicinal Shrub
14 Agathi Sesbania Food Fodder Decidious Subtree
grandiflora
15 Gliricidia Gliricidia sepium Legume Fodder Subtree
16 iluppai Mahua longifolia Medicinal Biofuel Evergreen
17 Wood apple Limonia Fruit Subtree
acidissima
18 Red Bead Tree, Adenanthera Legume Fodder
Ani kundamani pavonina
19 Vengai, Indian Pterocarpus Timber Decidious Tree
Kino marsupium
20 Paalai Wrightia tinctoria Flowering Wood utensils Decidious Shrub
21 white teak Gmelina arborea Timber Decidious Tree
22 Banyan Ficus bengalensis Birds Tree
23 Peepal Ficus religiosa Birds Decidious
24 Karu vagai Albizia lebbeck Timber Forage, Decidious Tree
25 Krishna Siris, Oil Albizia amara Medicinal Legume Decidious Shrub
cake tree
(Arappu)
26 Shikakai Acacia concinna Medicinal Shrub

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27 Blackboard Tree Alstonia scholaris Timber Canopy
28 nandiar vattai Tabernaemontana Flower Evergreen Shrub
divaricata
29 Velakkai Woodfordia
fruticosa
30 South Indian Sapindus Soapnut
Soapnut laurifolius
31 Flame of the forest Butea monosperma Flower Timber Decidious Subtree
32 Shenbagam Magnolia Flower Timber Evergreen Canopy
champaca
33 Bidi leaf tree Bauhinia Medicinal Shrub
racemosa
34 red sanders Pterocarpus Timber Subtree
santalinus,
35 Indian Mahogany Chukrasia Timber deciduous
tabularis
36 Casurina Casuarina Timber Windbreaker Evergreen Tree
equisetifolia
37 Kadamba Neolamarckia Timber Canopy
cadamba
38 Pomegranate Punica granatum Fruit Shrub
39 Guava Psidium guajava Fruit Subtree
40 Kad neli Phyllanthus Fruit Shrub
emblica
41 Indian Rosewood Dalbergia sissoo Timber Decidious Tree
42 Arjun Terminalia arjuna Medicine Tree
43 Sita
44 Indian cork Millingtonia Flowering Tree
hortensis
45 Parijata Nyctanthes arbor- Flowering Subtree
tristis
46 Lagestrome Lagerstroemia Flowering Decidious
indica

47 Bombax Flowering
48 Jasmine Flowering
49 Rubber Ficus elastica Timber Latex Evergreen Canopy?
50 Babul

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51 Blackboard Tree/ Alstonia scholaris Flower Fragrant Evergreen Canopy
Devils tree

52 bahera Terminalia Medicinal Decidious Canopy

bellirica

53 Mulberry Morus indica Fruit Fodder Decidious Shrub

54 Indian butter tree Diploknema Fruit Medicinal Decidious
butyracea

56 Nerium oleander
57 Indian Privet Ligustrum Flower Biopesticide Evergreen Shrub
indicum
58 Sapota
59 Custard Apple
60 Water Apple
61 Indian coral tree, Flower Decidious Tree
Kalyana murungai
62 flame of the Ixora coccinea Flower Evergreen Shrub
woods
63 Kad badami Terminalia Ornamental Fruit Decidious Tree
catappa

64 Ashok Saraca indica Ornamental

65 Babul Vachellia nilotica Legume
66 yellow flametree, Peltophorum Ornamental Timber Decidious Tree
copper pod pterocarpum

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