Mimusops elengi Linn.
Vernacular Name: Baula, Bakula (O, Beng.); Baula, Baulo, Maulsari, Malsari (H).
Medium or small evergreen tree. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, margins often wavy, acute or acuminate, shining, glabrous. Flowers pedicelled, white, fascicled; corolla-lobes 8, lanceolate and subsimilar; stamens 8 + inner series of petaloid and toothed staminodes. Berry usually narrowly ovoid or ellipsoid, orange, 1-seeded; seeds shining, black.
Frequently planted along roads and in temple premises and gardens.
Flowering : April - May
Fruiting : August - September