Trees & Plants

Manila tamarind

Kashi helebeli

Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.)

Cultivated in homesteads The wood is hard and is used for making boxes, crates and wagon wheels. The seed oil, after refining and bleaching, is used to make soap. The bark is employed as a fish bi- poison. The gum exuding from the trunk is valuable as tannin. The plant is known t

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uses: The wood is hard and is used for making boxes, crates and wagon wheels. The seed oil, after refining and bleaching, is used to make soap. The bark is employed as a fish bi- poison. The gum exuding from the trunk is valuable as tannin. The plant is known to be abortifacient, anodyne, astringent and larvicidal and a folk remedy for convulsions, dysentery, dyspepsia, earache, leprosy, peptic ulcers, sores, toothache and venereal diseases. Th reat: It is an invasive plant especially in the coastal dunes and mangrove areas. 5. a
family: Fabaceae
synonym: Mimosa dulcis Roxb., Inga dulcis (Roxb.) Willd.
description: Trees, to 15 m high. Leaves bi- pinnate, alternate; stipular spines to 2 cm; rachis 1-3 cm long, pulvinate; pinnae 2, 4-10 be mm long, pubescent, with a solitary gland at the top on upperside; leaflets 2, opposite, 1.5-3.5 × 0.5-1.5 cm, oblong-oblanceolate, inequilateral, base and apex obtuse. Flowers 5 Th mm across, creamy, heads arranged in axillary or terminal panicled spikes; peduncle to 2 cm. Calyx campanulate, pubescent, lobes 5. Petals 5, to 4 mm, connate in the middle, densely tomentose without. Stamens many, monadelphous; filaments to 7 mm. Fruit a pod, 8 × 1 cm, circinate or falcate, moniliform, dehiscent; seeds orbicular; aril white.
native range: Tropical America
distribution: Widely cultivated in the tropics Benth.
english names: Manila tamarind · Monkeypod to
flowering fruiting: November – March
occurrence maldives: Cultivated in homesteads