Terminalia Catappa (Country Almond/Sea Almond/False Kamani/Indian Almond)
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Terminalia Catappa (Country Almond/Sea Almond/False Kamani/Indian Almond)
Terminalia catappa, commonly called tropical almond or Indian almond, is a medium to large deciduous tropical tree is a large tree up to 40 m in height that grows mainly in Asia, Africa, and Australia. Greenish-white flowers are in a spike at the end of branches. Foliage is oval, shiny, borne in rosette-like clusters, and dark green before turning red and falling. Flowers are white and insignificant, but blooms are followed by red, yellow, or green fruit.
Leaves color green and can be red in the dry season in ovate shape. The bark of Indian almond trees is dark, a gray or gray-brown. It is smooth and thin, cracking as it ages. Mature trees have flattened, dense crowns. White blossoms appear on long slender racemes a few years after an almond tree is transplanted.
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When growing in your garden, make sure to plant the terminalia catappa at a site where it receives at least six hours of sunlight every day.
Water the plant when the soil become slightly dry out. It doesn’t like waterlogged soil and wet roots.
It prefers organically rich, moderately moist, and well-drained soil.
15 – 30 °C
Apply all-purpose fertilizer. -
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