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The Vateria indica tree is also known as the "Indian copal tree" and "dhupa". It is a large evergreen tree that can grow taller than 15 meters, with grayish, smooth bark. Young branchlets are round and hairy and exude a resinous substance. The leaf-stalks are 2-3.5 cm long, swollen at the apex and nearly hairless. The leaves are simple and spirally arranged, 8-27 x 4.5–10 cm in size and elliptic-oblong in shape, with caduceus-shaped stipples. The tip of the leaf is abruptly long-pointed or blunt and the leaf base varies in shape from rounded to heart-shaped. The leaf surface is leathery and hairless and the leaf midrib is flat above, with secondary nerves appearing in 13-20 pairs. The flowers are borne on panicles in the leaf axis, have dense stellate hairs, and are white with yellow anthers. The capsule is pale brown, 3-valved, oblong and around 6.4 x 3.8 cm in size. The sepals are persistent of seed. Flowering starts between January and March. The fruits ripen from May to July, typically yielding 400 to 500 kg per hectare. A good crop appears every 3 to 5 years, with one or two poor seasons and one or two average seasons in between. Its timber is used in the manufacturing of matches and plywood and its leaves have medicinal uses. The bark is used in the Gur industry and in medicine as a treatment for malaria. The resin secreted from the tree trunk is well known commercially as white damar; it is used in varnish, candles, ointments, medicines and incense.

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