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Cordia dichotoma

Scientific Name
Cordia dichotoma
Family Name
Boraginaceae
Common Names
Sebesten plum
Local Names
Lasora (India), Lolu (Sri Lanka)
Description
9-13m tall tree with ash-blakish brown colored rough bark. Leaves 7-18 x 5-13cm,broadly ovate, elliptic oblong or sometimes suborbicular, coriaceous, glabrous.Flowers creamy to yellow white or nearly white, in axillary as well as terminal cymes.Ripe drupes 1.5-2.5cm across, ovaoid or rounded, glabrous, bright yellow withpinkish tinge. (India)
A small tree with slender, glabrous twigs and pubescent buds leaves simple, alternate,6-l0.5cm long, 4-7.5cm broad, broadly oval or clliptk-ovate, rounded at the base,obtuse or subacute at apex, entire or more or less coarsely sinuate-serrate in the upperhalf, glabrous on both sides, thin petioles 1.7-4.3cm long and slender; flowers regular,bisexual, white, in lax. divaricate. branched corymbs. pedicels short sepals 5, fusedinto a tubular-campanulatc, glabrous calyx, pubescent within, se very shallow, about1.5mm long; petals 5, fused into a funnel-shaped corolla, corolla-tube 4mm long,segments 3.5mm long, 2mm broad, oblong, recurved; stamens 5, hairy, inserted in thethroat of the corolla; ovary superior, globular, glabrous, 4 locular with a single ovulcin each loculus. style terminal, deeply divided, the branches again bipartite and linear;fruit a globular-ovoid drupe, 1.8cm long, with a nearly truncate, persistent calyx.stone 1-locular by abortions. Flowers in June, July and December. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Snake bite, infusion, gargle, ringworms, colic, dyspepsia, fever, ulcers, headache,cough, laxative, demulcent, expectorant, affections, urinary passages (India)
Ulcerations, boils, cough, colitis, ringworms, gargle, stomach ache, headache,dysentery, tumours, laxative, chest ailment, gonorrhea (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Ritigala, Meegahak, Pinna
Remarks
Cordia dichotoma (GRIN)

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