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Adansonia digitata

Scientific Name
Adansonia digitata
Family Name
Bombacaceae
Common Names
Monkey-bread tree
Local Names
Gorakh amli (India), Aliya gaha (Sri Lanka)
Description
A tall, deciduous tree of about 20m high, with grey, smooth bark, main trunksometimes swollen at base. Leaves palmately compound; leaflets sessile or subsessile,ovate-oblong, acute to acuminate, densely silky-brown hairy at length, glabrous above.Flowers showy, pendulous, solitary in axiles of leafs. Stamens numerous. Fruitsellipsoidal, pale-brown, velvety hairy. Seeds reniform, brownish, embedded in pulp.(India)
A very large tree with a smooth, pinkish-grey bark; leaves alternate, palmatecompound, deciduous; petioles 7-14cm long, green, glabrous, somewhat groovedleaflets 5 or 6, basal pair the smallest and the apical on the largest, 7-13cm long, 2.5-5cm broad, lanceo late to obovate, dark green on the upper surface, paler beneath withentire margin and acuminate- acute apex; stipules intrapetiolar, triangular, dark brown,about 2mm long and as broad at the base and hairy outside; flowers solitary, pedielled. pendulous, bracteate; calyx 5-cleft, thick, up-shaped. pilose; petals 5, large.waxy white, recurved with crenate margins adhering to the stuminal column; stamensnumerous, filaments fused into a staminal column, anthers reniform ovary superior, 5-10 chambered with numerous ovules in each chamber, style long and erect dividinginto as many stigma lobes as there are chambers fruit an indehiscent, woody, velvetycapsule, 10-30cm long.Flowers from October to December and fruits from April toAugust. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Fever, diaphoretic, fomentation, rheumatic pains, ulcers, dysentery (India)
Hiccough, fever, astringent, diaphoretic, diarrhoea, emollient, diuretic, prophylactics,uterine troubles, expectorant, febrifuge (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Adansonia digitata (GRIN)

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