A common tree in natural habitats The wood is soft, durable, easily worked and resistant to termites. The seeds are edible. The bark is used to treat persistent diarrhea.
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The wood is soft, durable, easily worked and resistant to termites. The seeds are edible. The bark is used to treat persistent diarrhea.
family
Boraginaceae
synonym
Cordia banalo Blanco, Cordia campanulata Roxb. in
description
Small trees. Leaves simple, × 5-15 3-10 cm, base rounded or subcordate; petiole 6-12.5 cm. Corymbs lateral, few- flowered; flowers 6-merous. Calyx to 2 cm; teeth short, triangular, villous within. Corolla-tube 2 cm, lobes 1-2 cm. Branches of the stigmas linear-spathulate. Fruit 2.5 cm, ellipsoid, acute, usually 1 –seeded; seed muricated, subspinose.
native range
Eastern Africa, Southeast Asia and Northern Australia