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Ficus tsjahela, commonly known as the Kaaral in Malayalam, Kal-aal in Tamil and Boviyamara in Kannada is a fig tree which is found in Peninsular India and Sri Lanka.



State wise Distribution
Maharashtra: Ahemdnagar, Ratnagiri, Satara, Sindhudurg

Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, Shimoga, S. Kanara

Kerala: All districts

Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Kanniyakumari, Nilgiri, Salem, Tirunelveli, Tiruvannamalai, Vellore, Viluppuram

Habit
Deciduous trees up to 25 m tall.

Trunk & Bark
Bark dark brown; blaze red.

Branches and branchlets
Branchlets terete, glabrous. Exudates

Latex white, profuse.

Leaves
Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules foliaceous, 0.7 cm long, caducous and leaving annular scar; petiole ca. 6 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina to 20 x 8 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, base rounded, coriaceous, margin entire, glabrous and glossy; basally 3-nerved; midrib raised above; secondary nerves 6-10 pairs, prominent and parallel, looped near the margin; tertiary nerves reticulate.

Inflorescence / Flower
Inflorescence syconia, sessile, depressed-globose, in clusters of 2-6, on very short crowded tubercles in the axils of the leaves or most frequently at the scars of fallen leaves; flowers unisexual.

Fruit and Seed
Syconium, sessile, ca. 0.5 cm across, greenish; achenes smooth.