Trees & Plants

Brazil wood

Beys fathangu

Caesalpinia sappan L.

Occasional in homesteads The heart wood yields a quality dye and decoction of the wood is considered a powerful emmenagogue and useful in skin diseases, haemorrhages and disturbance of ets menstrual functions. It is also considered as astringent and sedative and cures biliousness

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uses: The heart wood yields a quality dye and decoction of the wood is considered a powerful emmenagogue and useful in skin diseases, haemorrhages and disturbance of ets menstrual functions. It is also considered as astringent and sedative and cures biliousness, fever, delirium, ulcer, strangury and urinary concretions. 5,
family: Fabaceae
synonym: Binacaea sappan (L.) Tod.
description: Trees, to 8 m high, sparsely armed with short straight or recurved prickles. Leaves bipinnate, alternate; rachis 20-40 cm long; pinnae 10-14 pairs, 2.5-10 cm long, spiny between pinnae pairs; leaflets × 20-40, opposite, subsessile, 1-2.5 0.5-1 cm, as oblong, base oblique, obtuse, apex obtuse; lateral nerves 5-15 pairs; stipules spiniform, to 3-5 mm long. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in supra-axillary and terminal racemes; pedicels 1-2 cm long. Sepals 5, unequal. Petals 5, orbicular, subequal, with red spot at the base. Stamens 10, declinate, × densely woolly at base. Fruit a pod, 7-10 3- 4 cm, obliquely oblong, black, glabrous; seeds black, oblong or ellipsoid.
native range: Myanmar, India, Malaysia, China and Th ailand
distribution: Indo-Malaysia and the United States of America
english names: Brazil wood · Sappan wood
flowering fruiting: August – December
occurrence maldives: Occasional in homesteads