Kannimara teak is one of the largest living teak tree found in parambikulam tiger reserve. According to the local tribal belief when the tree was tried to cut down, the blood was spruted out from the place of cut. Since then the tree was workshipped by the tribals as VIRGIN TREE.Thus the name kannimara was given as the word KANNI  means VIRGIN .
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