Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Bombax ceiba L.

 

Family: Bombacaceae

Synonym: Bombacopsis quinata Dugand, Bombax quinatum Jacq.

Vernacular name: Unnamurika

Habit: Trees

Habitat: Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, also in the plains

Distribution: Tropical Asia and New Guinea

Flowering and Fruiting: January-April

Key identification features: Deciduous trees; Leaves digitately-compound, alternate, stipulate; Fruit a capsule, downy tomentose, cylindrical, blackish and glabrous at maturity, the columella brownish; seeds numerous, pyriform, smooth, dark brown, embedded in white cotton.

Uses: Treatment of cholera, tubercular fistula, coughs, urinary complaints, nocturnal pollution, abdominal pain due to dysentery, and impotency

 



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