Help with plant identification: is this a roseapple or waterapple?
Hello friends! Please, help me to identify this plant (tree, fruit, flower). I was thinking this was some type of the waterapple? But I am really not sure. These photos are taken in Southern part of India (Karnataka state). Thank you in advance.
Tree with a fruit
Dry fruit
The flower
This is Barringtonia asiatica (Lecythidaceae) commonly called Fish poison tree. It is also known as Box Fruit due the distinct box-shaped fruit it produces. All parts of the tree are poisonous, the active poisons including saponins. Box fruits are potent enough to be used as a fish poison. The seeds have been used ground to a powder to stun or kill fish for easy capture, suffocating the fish where the flesh is unaffected.
I am not an expert, but I don’t think so. I think it is something different. Better don’t eat it, let’s wait for more answers.
