Chandigarh Forests
Department of Forest & Wildlife
UT Administration
Chandigarh
Department of Forest & Wildlife
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Division
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Angiosperms |
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Class
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Dicotledons |
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Subclass |
Polypetalae |
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Series |
Calyciflorae |
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Order |
Myrtales |
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Family
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Combretaceae |
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Genus
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Terminalia |
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Species
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arjuna |
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Botanical name:
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Terminalia arjuna Bedd. |
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Local/Trade Names: |
White Murdan, Arjuna, Arjun |
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Conservation status: |
Commonly planted at water logged areas. |
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Digonestic features: |
Bark smooth pale-greenish. |
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Description: |
A large tree buttressed and spreading crown. Bark smooth, pale-greenish or ashy grey. Leaves oblong or elliptic, 10-15 x 4-7 cm, cordate or rounded at base. Flowers ca 5 mm across, white. Fruit a drupe, 2.5-5 cm long, ovoid or ovoid-oblong, with 5 hard wings; wings 1.2 cm wide and marked with closely parallel, indistinct lines. |
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Phenology: |
Fls.: Apr.-May. Frts.: Dec.-Feb. |
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Distribution: |
Sub-Himalayan tracts, North-West India. Sri Lanka. |
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Where to see it: |
Medicinal Plant Garden and road between Pinetum and Palmsetum. |
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Uses: |
Wood used for carts, agricultural implements, water troughts, and boat-building. Suitable for plywood manufacture. It may also be used for house-building, water-traps, masts, electric poles and certain types of tool-handles, and jetty-piles. Bark used for tanning. It is styptic, tonic, febrifuge and antidysenteric; pulverized bark gives relief in symptomatic hypertension and acts as a diuretic in cirrhosis of liver. Fruits tonic and deobstruent. Juice of leaves used in ear-ache. Leaves fed to tusar silkworms. |
