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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