Gooseberry collection!

Young boys pucking gooseberry or amla fruit from a tree.

The Amla tree, also known as Amalaki or Indian Gooseberry, is a small tree that is indigenous to India. It produces fruit that have been used in Ayurveda both as a food.

Phyllanthus emblica (syn. Emblica officinalis), the Indian gooseberry, or Dhatrik (in Maithili), or amla from Sanskrit amala, Suaklu in Zomi is a deciduous tree of the family Phyllanthaceae. It is known for its edible fruit of the same name.

The tree is small to medium in size, reaching 8 to 18 m in height, with a crooked trunk and spreading branches. The branchlets are glabrous or finely pubescent, 10--20 cm long, usually deciduous; the leaves are simple, subsessile and closely set along branchlets, light green, resembling pinnate leaves. The flowers are greenish-yellow. The fruit is nearly spherical, light greenish yellow, quite smooth and hard on appearance, with six vertical stripes or furrows.
Ripening in autumn, the berries are harvested by hand after climbing to upper branches bearing the fruits. The taste of Indian gooseberry is sour, bitter and astringent, and it is quite fibrous. In India, it is common to eat gooseberries steeped in salt water and turmeric to make the sour fruits palatable. It is also used to straighten hair.

Source :- wikipedia

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