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Family Ebenaceae

Genus DIOSPYROS, Linn.

ROUND-HEADED trees, with zigzag branchlets and no terminal buds; wood hard and close grained. Leaves leathery, entire, simple, alternate, deciduous. Flowers dioecious, axillary; staminate in cymes, pistillate solitary or paired. Fruit a large, juicy berry, 1 to 10-seeded.