Tectona grandis

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Photographs by: Dr. Maulik Gadani

Botanical Name : Tectona grandis L.
Common Name : Teak, Saag, Sagwan
Plant Family : Verbenaceae
Plant Form : Tree
Occurrence (Sectors) : 1, 2, 4, 10, 30
Occurrence (Special Areas) : Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Van Chetana Kendra, Aranya Van

Habit : A large, deciduous tree with square, channeled, hairy stem.
Leaves : Very large, opposite or whorled, entire, elliptic or obovate, acute, rough and hairy.
Inflorescence : Large, terminal, branched, hairy cymose panicles.
Flowers :
- Bracteate, bracts lanceolate at the forks, bracteoles below the calyx, linear.
- Calyx 5-6 lobed, bell-shaped, hairy, enlarged and bladder-like in fruit and enclosing it, ovoid, crumpled, veined.
- Corolla white, lobes 5-6, unequal, imbricate.
- Stamens 5, on the base of the corolla.
- Ovary 4-celled, fleshy, ovule in each cell, style slender, stigma bifid.
Fruit : Drupe subglobose, pericarp soft with felted stellate hairs, endocarp bony, enclosed in accrescent calyx, seed exalbuminous.
Flowering and Fruiting Time : June - September
Significance : Timber is famous all over the world for house-building and furniture.