Palakkad (Ker)

Mal: പാലക്കാട് pālakkāṭ ‘Blackboard Tree Wood’  [Palghat, Palakkattussery]  City/District, Kerala, From Mal: pāla, ‘blackboard tree’ [Echites/Alstonia  scholaris]; and  kāṭu, ‘wilderness’, ‘wood’.  This is sometimes called the ‘seven-leaved milk-tree’ because of its...