Family:
Fabaceae
Synonym:
Lingoum santalinum (L.f.) Kuntze
Vernacular
name:
Chenchandanam Rakthachandanam
Habit:
Tree
Habitat:
Cultivated
Distribution:
Peninsular India
Flowering
and fruiting: September-January
Key
identification features: A small to medium-sized, deciduous
tree with a dense, rounded crown; bark blackish-brown, deeply cut into
rectangular plates, yielding a deep red latex when cut; heartwood extremely
hard, dark purple. Flowers yellow, borne a few together in simple or sparingly
branched racemes
Uses:
Used as an antipyretic, anti- inflammatory, anthelmintic, tonic, hemorrhage,
dysentery, aphrodisiac, anti-hyperglycaemic and diaphoretic.
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