Trees & Plants

Cork wood tree in

Dhunburi

Ochrosia oppositifolia (Lam.)

A common tree in natural habitats The wood which is yellowish-white, is used for construction purposes. A decoction of the bark is taken to purify blood, as an appetizer, purgative and carminative. A leaf decoction is used to wash the abdomen of women after childbirth. The bark,

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uses: The wood which is yellowish-white, is used for construction purposes. A decoction of the bark is taken to purify blood, as an appetizer, purgative and carminative. A leaf decoction is used to wash the abdomen of women after childbirth. The bark, wood and leaves are known to have febrifugal and stomachic properties.
family: Apocynaceae
synonym: Cerbera parviflora G. Forst., Cerbera oppositifolia Lam.
description: Small to medium evergreen trees, bark pale grey with white latex. Leaves in whorls of 4, sometimes opposite, simple, obovate to elliptic, 8–35 × 3–15 cm, base of decurrent, apex rounded, petiole 1–6.5 cm long. Inflorescence a terminal cyme, but often seemingly axillary, many-flowered; peduncle 2–14 cm long; lower bracts leafy, broadly ovate. Flowers bisexual, regular, 5-merous, almost sessile. Sepals connate at base, ovate, 1–2 mm long, thick. Corolla creamy to white, tube 4–10 mm long, cylindrical, slightly widened around the stamens, lobes elliptical, 5–9 × 2–3 mm, apex rounded, spreading. Ovary superior, consisting of 2 free carpels, ending in an ovoid pistil head, with a basal ring and a 2-lobed apex. Fruit of 2 free ovoid × to ellipsoid drupes 5–8 3–5.5 cm, apex rounded or apiculate, indehiscent, mesocarp fibrous, each drupe 1–2 seeded; seeds elliptical, flattened, 1.5–2.5 cm long, winged. K. Schum
native range: Southeast Asia and the Pacific
distribution: South Asia to the Western Pacific
english names: Cork wood tree in
flowering fruiting: December – October
occurrence maldives: A common tree in natural habitats