Chikoo Tree

Common name: Chikoo, Sapodilla plum, Chico sapote, Noseberry

Chikoo is a fairly slow-growing, long-lived tree, upright and elegant, distinctly pyramidal when young. It grows up to to 18 m high in the open but reaching 30 m when crowded in a forest. It is strong and wind-resistant, rich in white, gummy latex.  Flowers are small and bell-like, with 3 brown-hairy outer sepals and 3 inner sepals enclosing the pale-green corolla and 6 stamens. They are borne on slender stalks at the leaf bases. The fruit may be nearly round, oblate, oval, ellipsoidal, or conical

Botanical name: Manilkara zapota    Family: Sapotaceae (Mahua family)

Picture taken by Sa at Bangalore

(info-Flowers of India )