Grewia tenax

• Botanical Name : Grewia tenax (Forssk.) Fiori
• Synonyms : Grewia populifolia Vahl, Grewia betulifolia Juss.
• Common Name : Gangeti, Gango, Gangi, White Crossberry, Phalsa Cherry, Raisin Bush
• Plant Family : Tiliaceae
• Plant Form : Shrub
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Van Chetana Kendra

About Grewia tenax Plant :

• Habit : A small shrub.
• Leaves : Broadly ovate, or suborbicular or obovate, acute or obtuse, dentate, base rounded, stipules small linear.
• Flowers :
  • Pure white, peduncle solitary, leaf opposed with 1 or 2-3 flowers, bracts 2, near the middle of pedicel.
  • Sepals long, linear, hairy.
  • Petals linear-oblong, notched, gland broad, 3-lobed, torus 5-teethed, beneath the ovary.
  • Stamens many.
  • Ovary 4-lobed, style long, stigma 4-5 lobed.
• Fruit : Drupe smooth, orange-yellow, of 2 separable halves, each half didynamous.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : October - December
• Significance : The acid fruits are eaten, wood used for walking stick.