Trees & Plants

Large leaved orange mangrove

Bodu kandoo

Bruguiera gymnorrhiza (L.)

Fairly common in a few islands The wood is used for construction purposes, furniture, house posts and pilings. Bark is reported to be astringent and used against diarrhea and fever. Cambodians use the bark for treating malaria. In folklore practice, the bark is utilized to flavou

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uses: The wood is used for construction purposes, furniture, house posts and pilings. Bark is reported to be astringent and used against diarrhea and fever. Cambodians use the bark for treating malaria. In folklore practice, the bark is utilized to flavour raw fish. The leaves and peeled hypocotyls are boiling. Phlobaphene, the coloring matter L., obtained from the tree, is used in China and Malaysia for making black dye. 3-
family: Rhizophoraceae
synonym: Rhizophora gymnorrhiza L., Bruguiera rheedei Blume
description: Trees, to 7 m high; underground roots produce numerous knee roots; bark greyish to black, roughly fissured, lenticellate. × Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, 6-17 3- 7.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, reddish-green above, pale green beneath, stipulate. Flowers × reddish-pink, 2.5-3.5 2.4 cm, solitary, axillary, drooping; calyx tube campanulate, red or dark pink, enclosing the ovary; persistent. Petals 12-16, free, shortly stalked, brown, deeply bilobed with a bristle in the sinus between the lobes; lobes equal, more or less round with 2-4 cilia on each, basal margin of the petals with dense stiffhairs; Lam. stamens slightly unequal in length. Fruit a drupe 2-2.5 cm long, reddish-green; seed × one; hypocotyle to 25 1.2 cm, cylindric, with a blunt tip, brownish-green.
native range: Southeast Asia, East Africa, North Australia and the South Pacific
distribution: Micronesia, Samoa and the south-western Pacific from the eastern coast of Africa through Asia to subtropical Australia
english names: Large leaved orange mangrove
flowering fruiting: June – October
occurrence maldives: Fairly common in a few islands