Chandigarh Forests
Department of Forest & Wildlife
UT Administration
Chandigarh
Department of Forest & Wildlife
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Division
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Angiosperms
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Class
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Dicotledons |
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Subclass
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Apetalae |
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Order
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Urticales |
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Family
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Moraceae |
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Genus
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Artocarpus |
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Species
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lacucha |
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Botanical name
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Artocarpus lacucha Buch.-Ham. |
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Local/Trade names:
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Monkey Jack, Lakoocha, Lakuch, Barhal, Dheu. |
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Conservation status: |
Cultivated also found wild. |
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Digonestic features: |
Fruit velvety orange-red when ripe. |
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Description: |
A large deciduous tree. Bark reddish-brown, rough, exfoliating in woody plates. Leaves coriaceous, 10-30 x 5-15 cm, elliptic or broadly oblong. Receptacles axillary, subglobose, males subsessile usually from previous year’s and females short peduncled from current year’s axils. Female receptacles (Fruit), velvety orange-red when ripe, 5-10 cm across. |
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Phenology: |
Fls.: Mar.-Apr. Frts.: Rainy season; leafless beginning of hot season. |
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Distribution: |
Sub-Himalayan tracts, eastwards to Assam, southwards to Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia. |
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Where to see it: |
Nursery. |
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Uses: |
Fruits edible with sweetish-sour taste. Wood used for posts, beams, scantlings, and rafters, and for medium weight furniture and boat-buliding. Wood (Lakuch) is durable in exposed. |
