NATIVE TREES OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION POTENTIALITY FOR BANGLADESH

1. RIDAY SAHA
NATIVE TREES OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION
POTENTIALITY FOR BANGLADESH

2. Binomial Name:
Aphanamixis Polystachya
Native Name:
Royna (রয়না) / Pithraj (পিথরাজ).
Native Area:
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
Characteristic:
The tree is 20m tall. Leaves are compound, imparipinnate,
alternate; oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate; base asymmetric;
with entire margin. Flowers are polygamous and show panicles
inflorescence. Fruit is a single seeded pale-reddish subglobose
capsule.

3. Binomial Name:
Dipterocarpus Turbinatus
Native Name:
Garjan (গজজন)
Native Area:
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia,
Borneo, Cambodia, Laos to Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, and
China.
Characteristic:
The trees of D. turbinatus are lofty, growing 30–45 m tall. The bark
is gray or dark brown, and is shallowly longitudinally fissured and
flaky. Branchlets are glabrescent. The leaf buds are falcate, with
both buds and young twigs densely gray and puberulous.

4. Binomial Name:
Tectona Grandis
Native Name:
Teak/Segun (সেগুন)
Native Area:
Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Sri-
Lanka, Africa and the Caribbean.
Characteristic:
Teak is a large deciduous tree up to 40 m (131 ft) tall with grey to
greyish-brown branches, known for its high quality wood. Its leaves
are ovate-elliptic to ovate, 15–45 cm (5.9–17.7 in) long by 8–23 cm
(3.1–9.1 in) wide, and are held on robust petioles which are 2–4 cm
(0.8–1.6 in) long. Leaf margins are entire.

5. Binomial Name:
Artocarpus Heterophyllus
Native Name:
Jackfruit (কাাঁঠাল)
Native Area:
Bangladesh, India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand
and Philippines.
Characteristic:
Artocarpus heterophyllus grows as an evergreen tree that has a
relatively short trunk with a dense treetop. It easily reaches heights
of 10 to 20 m (33 to 66 feet) and trunk diameters of 30 to 80 cm (12
to 31 inches). It sometimes forms buttress roots. The bark of the
jackfruit tree is reddish-brown and smooth. In the event of injury to
the bark, a milky juice is released.

6. Binomial Name:
Hopea Odorata
Native Name:
Telshur (সেলশুর)
Native Area:
Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand,
and Vietnam
Characteristic:
This tree reaching up to 45 m in height with the base of the trunk
reaching a diameter of 4.5 m. It grows in forests, preferably near
rivers, at altitudes between 0 and 600m. Valued for its wood, it is a
threatened species in its natural habitat.

7. Binomial Name:
Lagerstroemia Speciosa
Native Name:
Jarul (জারুল)
Native Area:
South East Asia, Bangladesh, India and the Philippines.
Characteristic:
Small to medium-sized tree growing to 20 metres (66 ft) tall, with
smooth, flaky bark. The leaves are deciduous, oval to elliptic, 8–15
cm (3.1–5.9 in) long and 3–7 cm (1.2–2.8 in) broad, with an acute
apex. The flowers are produced in erect panicles 20–40 cm (7.9–
15.7 in) long, each flower with six white to purple petals 2–3.5 cm
(0.79–1.38 in) long. The flowers in this plant blooms only once in a
year at the peak of summer.

8. Binomial Name:
Shorea Robusta
Native Name:
Sal tree (শাল গাছ)
Native Area:
Indian subcontinent, ranging south of the Himalaya, from Myanmar
in the east to Nepal, India and Bangladesh.
Characteristic:
Sal is moderate to slow growing, and can attain heights of 30 to 35
m and a trunk diameter of up to 2–2.5 m. The leaves are 10–25 cm
long and 5–15 cm broad. In wetter areas, sal is evergreen; in drier
areas, it is dry-season deciduous, shedding most of the leaves from
February to April, leafing out again in April and May.

9. Binomial Name:
Syzygium Cumini
Native Name:
Jam Gach (জাম গাছ)
Native Area:
Indian Subcontinent, adjoining regions of Southeast Asia, including
Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and the Andaman Islands.
Characteristic:
As a rapidly growing species, it can reach heights of up to 30 m and
can live more than 100 years. Its dense foliage provides shade and
is grown just for its ornamental value. At the base of the tree, the
bark is rough and dark grey, becoming lighter grey and smoother
higher up. The wood is water resistant after being kiln-dried.

10. Binomial Name:
Chukrasia Tabularis
Native Name:
Pabba / Chickrassi / Dalmara
Native Area:
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,
Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Characteristic:
The trees are tall with a cylindrical bole and spreading crown. C.
velutina leaves are abruptly pinnate or bipinnate with leaflets that
alternate or are subopposite, entire and unequal at the base. The
erect, oblong flowers, which are rather large and born in terminal
panicles, possess four to five petals. Mature fruits are a septifragally
three to five valved capsule.

11. Binomial Name:
Artocarpus Lacucha
Native Name:
Dahua / Dauphal / Dewa (সেউয়া)
Native Area:
Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Characteristic:
A large tree up to 20 m tall, with a dense spreading crown. Bark
dark brown, exfoliating in small round woody plate, inside reddish,
softly fibrous with faint streaks of white latex, copious milkly latex.
Young parts tomentose. Leaves broadly oblong or elliptic-obovate,
12-28 cm long, 6-15 cm broad, scabrid, pubescent beneath,
coriaceous, margin entire, apex acute or obtuse, lateral veins 6-14
on either side of midvein, petiole 1-3.5 cm long, stipules lanceolate,
10-15 mm long, hairy. Inflorescence axillary, globose on short
pubescent peduncles.

12. • Md. Danesh Miah , M. Farid Uddin , M.K. Bhuiyan , Masao Koike & Man Yong Shin (2009) Carbon sequestration by the indigenous tree species in
the reforestation program in Bangladesh‐aphanamixispolystachya Wall. and Parker, , 5:2, 62-65, DOI: 10.1080/21580103.2009.9656349
• Alamgir, M., Al-Amin, M. Organic carbon storage in trees within different Geopositions of Chittagong (South) Forest Division, Bangladesh. J. of
For. Res. 18, 174 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-007-0036-6
• http://bnh.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/bnh.portal.gov.bd/page/606f4b80_1827_40cd_9949_82b8a9488b2e/Timber%20Plants%20list
%20for%20Web.pdf
• Akter S. 2009. Sketching organic carbon flow from seed to tree of Indigenous Dipterocarpaceae: Garjan, Sal and Telsur. BSc thesis. Institute of
Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
• Miah MD, Shin MY, Koike M. 2011. Carbon Sequestration in the Forests of Bangladesh. In: Forests to Climate Change Mitigation: Clean
Development Mechanism in Bangladesh (Miah MD, Shin MY, Koike M, eds). ESE, Springer Publishing, China, pp 55-79.
• Ullah MR. 2008. Tree composition, regeneration and initial carbon sequestration of selected trees using climate change scenarios at Tankawati.
BSc (Honours) thesis. Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, pp 1-85.
• Sohel MSI, Rana MP, Alam M, Akhter S, Alamgir M. 2009. The carbon sequestration potential of forestry sector: bangladesh context. J For Sci 25:
157-165.
• Roshid HA. 2005. Floral diversity and organic carbon stock at chittagong forest division using spatial datasets. MS thesis. Institute of Forestry and
Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264148355_Carbon_Forestry_Scope_and_Benefit_in_Bangladesh
Reference's: