Chandan

DESCRIPTION

A small to medium sized, evergreen semi-parasitic tree, with slender branches, sometimes

reaching up to 18 m in height and 2.4 m in girth. Barth reddish or dark grey or nearly black,

rough with deep cracks on old trees; leaves glabrous, thin, elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate,

1.5-8 cm * 1.6-3.2 cm, sometimes larger; flowers straw-coloured, brownish purple, reddish purpleor violet.