Trees & Plants

Puneala plum

Umbuvah

Flacourtia jangomas (Lour.)

Cultivated in homesteads Fruit is edible. The bark and leaves are useful as a remedy for ulemorrhagia and stomatitis. The fruits are used in treating hyperdipsia, rheumatism, nausea, dyspepsia, flatulence, colic, inflammation, skin disease, diabetes, jaundice and tumours.

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uses: Fruit is edible. The bark and leaves are useful as a remedy for ulemorrhagia and stomatitis. The fruits are used in treating hyperdipsia, rheumatism, nausea, dyspepsia, flatulence, colic, inflammation, skin disease, diabetes, jaundice and tumours.
family: Flacourtiaceae
synonym: Stigmarota jangomas Lour., Flacourtia cataphracta Roxb. ex Willd.
description: Small trees, to 10 m high, dioecious; young branches with simple or branched thorns; bark pale brown to × copper-red. Leaves alternate, 4-9 2.5-5 cm, oblong-ovate to lanceolate, rounded to broadly cuneate at base, subserrate or crenate at margin, obtusely long acuminate at apex, pinkish brown when young; lateral nerves 4 or 5 pairs; petiole 4-7 mm long. Flowers in axillary, subcorymbose racemes; pedicels very slender, 5-10 mm long. Disc faintly lobed, fleshy, white or orange- yellow. Male flower buds globose, ca. 2 mm; stamens numerous, free; anthers extrorse. Raeusch. Female flower buds ovoid, incompletely 4-6 loculed by false septa; stigma 4-6, dilated. Fruit a berry, subglobose, angled, apiculate, 1.5-2.5 cm across, scarlet red or dark purple when ripe; stylar column persistent, conic, terminating in 4-8 minute stigmatic points; seeds 8-12, flat.
native range: Southeast Asia to
distribution: Southeast Asia, Eastern Australia, Pacific Islands and East Africa or
english names: Puneala plum · Indian plum · Coffee plum
flowering fruiting: November - April
occurrence maldives: Cultivated in homesteads