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Elaeocarpus calomala

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ5353079 ↗
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Elaeocarpus calomala is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae.

Elaeocarpus calomala is a tree commonly found in the Philippines and used to create religious images known as santo. In the Philippines this tree is locally known as anakle, bunsilak or binting-dalaga (Tagalog, "maiden's leg"). It is similar to native tree species known as batikuling and like the olongas, another native tree species in the Philippines.

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This entry incorporates text from “Elaeocarpus calomala” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.