Fig. 2.

Salient botanical features of Emblica officinalis Gaertn. syn. Phyllanthus emblica L. a Full-grown trees in deciduous forest, b fruit-bearing trees with light grayish or greenish-brown barks, c arrangement of leaves and fruits along the branchlets of the tree, d almost sphere-shaped fruits showing minor conic indentation on both poles and six blurred perpendicular pole-to-pole stripes [Inset: top—edible fleshy yellowish-green mesocarp; left—endocarp in the form of hard stone encasing the seeds; center—crustaceous cocci, right—smooth, dark brown, and trigonous seeds] (Photographs are not in scale)

(Source: unpublished photographs of Saikat Gantait)