Trees & Plants

Amboyna wood

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Pterocarpus indicus Willd.

Common. Planted as an avenue tree. The wood is hard and durable and used for construction purposes and for making furniture. A reddish exudate from or the bark is used to treat tumours, especially of the mouth. Indigenous people apply the resin to mouth sores and the root juice i

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uses: The wood is hard and durable and used for construction purposes and for making furniture. A reddish exudate from or the bark is used to treat tumours, especially of the mouth. Indigenous people apply the resin to mouth sores and the root juice is applied to the sores from syphilis. The plant has also been listed as a remedy for bladder ailments, headache, stones, and thrush.
family: Fabaceae
synonym: Lingoum indicum (Willd.) Kuntze, Lingoum rubrum Rumph.
description: Large, buttressed, evergreen trees with broad crown and drooping branches; bark light brown, finely fissured, exudate red. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, 20-40 cm long; rachis as slender, swollen at the base; leaflets 5-11, alternate, thin, shiny green to yellow-green, × ovate, 5-10 3.8-5 cm, apex acuminate with a rounded tip, base rounded or shortly cuneate. Flowers golden yellow, of borne in axillary panicles, 10-15 cm long. Calyx 6 mm long, turbinate. Corolla 1.5 is cm long, exserted, petals 5, 1.5-1.8 cm long, stalked at base, becoming crinkled, standard orbicular or broadly ovate, 1.5 cm wide, rolled backwards, wings and keel petals 2 each. Fruit orbicular, 4.5-5 cm across, including the broad, thin, rigid wing stalked at the base with a pointed style at one side, indehiscent; seeds 1 or 2.
native range: Southeast Asia
distribution: South and Southeast Asia, USA, Vietnam and Puerto Rico
english names: Amboyna wood · Burmese rosewood · Red sandalwood
flowering fruiting: October - January
occurrence maldives: Common. Planted as an avenue tree.