Family:
Fabaceae
Synonym:
Jonesia asoca Roxb.
Vernacular
name:
Ashokam. Hemapushpam
Habit:
Tree
Habitat:
Semi evergreen forests, cultivated
Distribution:
India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh. Introduced in cultivation in Malaysia
Flowering
& Fruiting: March-October
Key
identification features: Habit- Small trees. Trunk often
tubercled; bark lenticellate, dark, shallowly fissured; blaze purplish. Leaves
compound, paripinnate, alternate, distichous; stipules caducous; flowers
orange, sometimes white; fragrant. Fruit and Seed Pod, flat, oblong, apiculate; seeds obovate-orbiculate.
Uses:
Although it is considered highly medicinal Karbis use to chew the fruit as
substitute for arecanut. Usually planted for ornamental purposes.
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