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Ⅰndian Gooseberry or Amla is a fruit-bearing and medicinal tree originating in India and Southeast Asia, its natural range extending across much of the Indian subcontinent, from the foothills of the Himalayas to Sri Lanka in the south and from Bangladesh east to Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and southern China.
It is a fast-growing tree and may reach heights of up to 30 m (98 ft), though is more typically 10 to 15 m (32 to 50 ft) tall with a slender trunk, often fluted at the base, supporting a wide-spreading crown of wispy foliage. The bark is grey-brown and flaking off in thin pieces, revealing yellow underbark and causing mottling on the trunk.
The foliage is feathery and finely textured, made up of small dull green elliptical leaves up to 2 cm (0.8 in) long, arranged opposite each other, in rows along thin branchlets. They fall off the tree in the dry season to conserve water, leaving the branches bare and exposed until the rainy season, the new leaves emerging pinkish and soft before they harden and become green.
The flowers are tiny and insignificant, greenish or pink and borne either female or male along the base of the leafing branchlets, just below the lower leaves. They come into bloom in spring, induced by increasing day-length and coincide with the emergence of the new leaves. Small round fruit follow, 2 to 3 cm (0.8 to 1.2 in) in diameter with thin, pale green skin and crisp, very sour pulp surrounding a hard nut with six seed inside. They ripen to yellow-green about six to nine months after fruit-set, usually from autumn to winter.