{"id":2123,"date":"2018-06-06T09:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T09:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:43:05","slug":"karimara-ebony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/karimara-ebony\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari mara &#8211; Ebony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kari mara&nbsp;<\/em>(Diospyros ebenum Koenig) one of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/native-trees-of-kodagu\/\">native<\/a>&nbsp;trees in Kodagu which grows very slowly up to 20\u201325 metres<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2125 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ebnoy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\"> tall.A famous timber tree, valued for its black wood for thousands of years.This species is said to produce the best commercial black ebony.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Kodava<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Karimara<\/p>\n<h2><strong>English<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Ebony<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Kannada<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Bale mara<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Botanical Name<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Diospyros ebenum Koenig<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Family<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>EBENACEAE<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Uses<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The gummy astringent fruits are used as a medicine and eaten in times of famine. The fruits are also used as fish poison. The tree is said to produce the best commercial black ebony. It is mainly exported to China for furniture and to Europe as fancy wood.<\/p>\n<p>The long stem is carved to make the sacred <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/gejjethand\/\"><em>gejje thand<\/em> <\/a>for Kodavas&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kari mara&nbsp;(Diospyros ebenum Koenig) one of the&nbsp;native&nbsp;trees in Kodagu which grows very slowly up to 20\u201325 metres tall.A famous timber tree, valued for its black wood for thousands of years.This species is said to produce&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/karimara-ebony\/\" class=\"blink\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora-and-fauna"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kari mara - Ebony - Kodagu Heritage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/karimara-ebony\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kari mara - Ebony - Kodagu Heritage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kari mara&nbsp;(Diospyros ebenum Koenig) one of the&nbsp;native&nbsp;trees in Kodagu which grows very slowly up to 20\u201325 metres tall.A famous timber tree, valued for its black wood for thousands of years.This species is said to produce... read more &raquo;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/karimara-ebony\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kodagu Heritage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-06T09:44:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-08T13:43:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ebnoy.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"sachitha chengappa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sachitha chengappa\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/karimara-ebony\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/karimara-ebony\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"sachitha chengappa\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/#\/schema\/person\/f1f97993d878c7d874880fb8199be8c5\"},\"headline\":\"Kari mara &#8211; 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