The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

DIOSPYROS

Diospyros is a large genus of trees and shrubs of the family Ebenacea, from which ebony is obtained. They are natives of the warmer regions of the world. That ebony from Sri Lanka is the wood of Diospyros Ebenum; from India, of Diospyros melanoxylon and Diospyros Ebenaster; and that from Maurirituis Diospyros reticulata. The Diospyros Lotos is the Indian date-plum. It is by some supposed to have been the lotus-tree of the ancients, whose fruit was said to produce oblivion.
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