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 |
Disciflorae |
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Order |
Geraniales |
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Family
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Meliaceae |
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Genus
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Toona |
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Species
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ciliata |
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Etymology:
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Toon is a Hindi name for the species. |
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Botanical name:
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Toona ciliata M. Roem. (Cedrela toona Roxb.) |
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Local/Trade Names: |
Toon, Red Cedar, Moulmein Cedar, Indian Mahogany |
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Conservation status: |
Very commonly found wild. Also planted as avenues. |
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Digonestic features: |
The heartwood is red. |
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Description: |
A large tree. Bark thin, dark grey, smooth upto middle age; heartwood red. Leaves usually paripinnate, 30-60 cm long; leaflets 5-15 x 0.7-6 cm, opposite or nearly so, 5-10 pair, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, often unequal-sided. Flowers white, honey-scented. Fruit a capsule, smooth, upto 2.5 cm long, dark brown. Seeds with membranous wings at both ends. |
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Phenology: |
Fls.: May-June. Frts.: July-Aug. |
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Distribution: |
Throughout the India. |
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Where to see it: |
Medicinal Plant Garden and along boundary wall back Cactus Rockery. |
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Uses: |
Wood used for furniture, ceilings and floors, doors and windows, cigar-cases, and tea-boxes and also for plywood manufacture. Flowers yield a dye. Bark used for chronic dysentery of infants; also used in external applications for ulcers. Wood yields an essential oil. |
