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Bakul is an evergreen tree which grows to a height of about 12 to 15 meters, with a dense rounded crown, short
trunk, and brown bark, cracked or fissured and inner bark being red or reddish-brown and white latex. The leaves
are alternate, elliptic-oblong, 6.3 to 10 centimetres long and 3.2 to 5 centimetres wide, apex acuminate, base
acute or rounded, coriaceous, shiny, glabrous, with undulate margins. The petioles are 1.3 to 2.5 centimetres
long. Flowers of Bakul are small, star-shaped, creamy-white, fragrant, nearly 2.5 centimetres across, solitary or in
2 to 6-flowered axillary fascicles. Buds are ovoid and acute and the pedicels are 0.6 to 2 centimetres long. Calyx
is one centimetre long, fulvous-pubescent, sepals ovate and tomentose. The corolla is longer than the calyx and
lobes are 8 millimetres long. Fruits (berries) are ellipsoid, about 2.5 centimetres long, one-seeded berries and
yellow to orange-red when ripe. The seeds are brown, ellipsoid, compressed and shining. In peninsular India
flowering and fruiting takes place between March and January.
BAKUL TREE