Trees & Plants

Indian cork tree

Fonimaa

Millingtonia hortensis L. f.

Planted as an avenue tree in some islands The wood is soft and the bark is used as an inferior substitute for cork. The pleasant smelling flowers are used in the treatment of asthma and sinusitis. Leaves, roots and bark are anti-asthmatic and in antimicrobial. The tree has antiox

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uses: The wood is soft and the bark is used as an inferior substitute for cork. The pleasant smelling flowers are used in the treatment of asthma and sinusitis. Leaves, roots and bark are anti-asthmatic and in antimicrobial. The tree has antioxidant, larvicidal, antimutagenic, anthelmintic and hepatoprotective properties.
family: Bignoniaceae
synonym: Bignonia hortensis (L.f.) Oken, Bignonia suberosa Roxb. fi
description: Trees, to 20 m high; bark pale brown, corky. Leaves 2-3 pinnate, opposite; pinnae 11-17 pairs, 6-16 cm, slender, grooved above, opposite, imparipinnate; leaflets 3-5, opposite; petiolule 5-10 mm long, slender, grooved above; lamina 2.5-8 ×1.5-5 cm, ovate or elliptic-ovate, base oblique, truncate or acute, apex acuminate, margin entire or coarsely dentate-crenate; lateral nerves 3-5 pairs, prominent; rachis 45-70 cm long, swollen at base, grooved above. Flowers white, in terminal corymbose panicles. Calyx 4 mm, cupular, puberulous; lobes 5. Corolla 2.5 NARAHDISAS .N/OAF .P/OAF cm across; tube narrow, cylindric, ca. 7 cm; lobes 5, subequal. Stamens 4, didynamous, filaments 1-1.5 cm long; anthers oblong, 1-cell fertile, other reduced to an appendage. Fruit an elongated capsule, to 30×2 cm, 2-valved; seeds many, winged.
native range: Southeast Asia
distribution: Southeast Asia and Malaysia
english names: Indian cork tree · Tree jasmine
flowering fruiting: March – August
occurrence maldives: Planted as an avenue tree in some islands