Trees & Plants

Tree heliotrope fi

Boshi

Tournefortia argentea L. f.

A common tree associate in natural habitats The wood is used to make specific canoe parts, goggles, carved masks and as firewood. The plant is known to be effective in treating poisoning through sea animals, wounds, stomach aches and liver and blood problems. Young shoots are a r

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uses: The wood is used to make specific canoe parts, goggles, carved masks and as firewood. The plant is known to be effective in treating poisoning through sea animals, wounds, stomach aches and liver and blood problems. Young shoots are a remedy for filariasis.
family: Boraginaceae
synonym: Messerschmidia argentea (L. f.) I.M. Johnst., Tournefortia arborea Blanco
description: Shrubs to small trees, bark in × greyish. Leaves 15 5 cm, ovate or ovate lanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate; petiole to 2 cm, densely silky pubescent. Peduncles fiterminal, or from an upper axil, 2-12 cm; cymes often forming a panicle 15 cm dia; flowers sessile, white. Sepals 1-3 mm long, ovate, densely woolly, ultimately glabrescent. Corolla-tube as long as the sepals; lobes 2 mm, ovate, crenulate. Stigma subsessile, obscurely 2-lobed. Drupes 6-7 mm diam, subglobose.
native range: Indo-Pacific region f. f.)
distribution: In the tropics.
english names: Tree heliotrope fi
flowering fruiting: July – February
occurrence maldives: A common tree associate in natural habitats