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Buchanania axillaris

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Species of flowering plant

Buchanania axillaris
Buchanania axillaris
Buchanania axillaris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genus: Buchanania
Species: B. axillaris
Binomial name
Buchanania axillaris
(Desr.) Ramamoorthy

Buchanania axillaris, the Cuddapah almond or Buchanan's mango, (മലയാളം: കുളമാവ്) is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. The native range of this species is India, Sri Lanka.

Description

A medium sized tree, hairless, branches stout, bark rough, deeply fissured. Leaves are linear-oblong, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, rounded or narrow at base, entire at margin, blunt, rounded or notched at tip, 7.5–15 x 3–5 cm, smooth, netveined, lateral nerves 12–15 pairs. Leaf-stalks are 1.75 -3 cm long, slender. Flowers are 3–6 mm across, in axillary and terminal hairless branched panicles, white. Sepals are 5, semicircular, about 1 mm long. Petals are 5, oblong or ovate, about 2.5 mm long. Stamens are 10, anthers oblong, ovary hairy. Fruit is obliquely globose, about 1.25 cm, slightly compressed.

Phenology

Flowering and fruiting: March–July.

Uses

The kernel of the seeds are edible. The seeds contain 19% proteins, 59.1% fat, 3.8% fibres, 12.1% carbohydrates and minerals at the value of 3 grams per 100 grams and the calorific value of the seeds are 656 K kal/100 g. The seed kernel and bark is used in the form of decoction to treat intrinsic haemorrhage, diarrhoea with blood and as tonic. Seed kernels were made into a powder and used with milk as an aphrodisiac, powder of the bark mixed with honey is useful in dysentery with blood.

References

  1. ^ "Buchanania axillaris – Cuddapah Almond".
  2. ^ "Buchanania axillaris (Desr.) Ramamoorthy | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online.
  3. "Buchanania axillaris (Desr.) T.P. Ramamoorthy – Conservation Status". indiabiodiversity.org.
  4. "Buchanania axillaris (Desr.) T.P. Ramamoorthy | Species". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
Taxon identifiers
Buchanania axillaris


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