Trees & Plants

Bullet wood

Moonimaa

Mimusops elengi L.

Widely planted as an avenue tree The flowers are sweet-scented and m used to make garlands. The wood is extremely hard and deep red in colour. Water boiled with the bark is used as a gargle for the diseases of teeth and inflammation of gums. The bark, flowers and fruits are acrid

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uses: The flowers are sweet-scented and m used to make garlands. The wood is extremely hard and deep red in colour. Water boiled with the bark is used as a gargle for the diseases of teeth and inflammation of gums. The bark, flowers and fruits are acrid, astringent, cooling and anthelmintic. Tender stems are used as tooth brushes. Flowers are used to prepare a lotion for wounds and ulcers. or
family: Sapotaceae
synonym: Mimusops lucida Poir.
description: Evergreen trees, to 20 m high, bark dark grey, cracked or fissured longitudinally, rough; exudation white. × Leaves simple, alternate, 4-12 3.5-7.5 for cm; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base round of or obtuse, apex obtuse to acuminate; lateral nerves many, parallel, looped near the margin; petiole 15-40 mm long. Flowers white, fragrant, 1-3, in axillary fascicles, pedicel 1 cm long. Calyx lobes 8 in 2 series of 4 each. Corolla 1 cm across; lobes 24, 3 series of 8 each. Stamens 8, alternating with pilose staminodes. Fruit a berry, yellow or × orange-yellow, ovoid, 2.5 1.5 cm, fleshy; seeds usually 1, oblong-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, smooth, shining.
native range: India
distribution: Indo-Malaysia
english names: Bullet wood · Bakul tree an
flowering fruiting: December - August NARAHDISAS .N/OAF
occurrence maldives: Widely planted as an avenue tree