Fairly common in homesteads Multipurpose tree - almost all parts are useful. Fruit is rich in Vitamin C and is a strong anti-oxidant. It is used as a remedy for vomiting, urinary discharges, diabetes, leprosy, constipation, inflammation, piles, anaemia, strangury, anuria and opht
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Multipurpose tree - almost all parts are useful. Fruit is rich in Vitamin C and is a strong anti-oxidant. It is used as a remedy for vomiting, urinary discharges, diabetes, leprosy, constipation, inflammation, piles, anaemia, strangury, anuria and ophthalmia. The root bark is astringent, and is useful in ulcerative stomatitis and gastrohelcosis. The bark is used to treat gonorrhea, jaundice, diarrhea and myalgia. 6, to
family
Euphorbiaceae
synonym
Emblica officinalis Gaertn.
description
Deciduous trees, to 15 m high, for bark grey-brown, rough, irregularly flaking. Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious on short deciduous branchlets, closely overlapping, Th × 0.5-1.5 2-4 mm, oblong or linear- oblong, base round, apex obtuse and shortly apiculate, glabrous, membranous, subsessile. Flowers unisexual, 2-3 mm across, greenish- yellow, densely clustered in leaf axils. Male flowers: tepals 6, oblanceolate, 1.5 mm, obtuse, stamens 3. Female flowers: tepals 6, oblanceolate; ovary superior, 3-celled.Fruit a capsule 1.5-2.5 cm across, subglobose, dehiscing into 6 cocci, disc enlarged to fleshy yellowish-green, indehiscent berry.