Trees & Plants

Small leaved orange mangrove

Bodavaki, Kandoo

Bruguiera cylindrica (L.)

A common true mangrove which occurs throughout the islands from north to south. The plant produces quality tannin. The timber is hard, reddish and strong. The crushed bark has an unusual odour which is repulsive to fish and therefore the wood is not used for fish traps. Neverthel

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uses: The plant produces quality tannin. The timber is hard, reddish and strong. The crushed bark has an unusual odour which is repulsive to fish and therefore the wood is not used for fish traps. Nevertheless, extracts from the pneumatophores are used or in the manufacture of perfume. In Th ailand, the bark is the source of a spice and the young shoots are consumed as vegetable. In traditional medicine, fruit skin is used to stop bleeding and the leaves to lower blood pressure. or
family: Rhizophoraceae
synonym: Rhizophora cylindrica L., Bruguiera malabarica Arn.
description: Trees, to 8 m high; underground is roots produce numerous knee roots; bark is cracked, lenticellate. Leaves simple, opposite, × decussate, 4-13 2-5.5 cm, elliptic or in oblanceolate, bronze-green coloured above, pale green beneath. Flowers greenish-white in axillary cymes, usually of 3-flowered, In rarely 6-flowerd; flowers sessile, rarely middle flowers pedicellate. Calyx tube, campanulate, greenish-white; lobes 6-9. Petals 6-9, free, white, apically bilobed, with a long bristle in the sinus between the lobes, lobes equal, tip more or less round with 3 or 4 cilia on each, margin densely hairy in the lower half and at the base except the stalk. Stamens 10, in pairs of unequal length. Fruit a drupe, reddish-green; seed one; hypocotyle cylindric, green with brownish tinge.
distribution: Asia-Pacific region L.,
english names: Small leaved orange mangrove
flowering fruiting: December - October
occurrence maldives: A common true mangrove which occurs throughout the islands from north to south.