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Croton tiglium

Scientific Name
Croton tiglium
Family Name
Euphorbiaceae
Common Names
Purging croton
Local Names
Jamalghota (India), Changkian, chemengkian, bua patu (peninsular)(Malaysia), Japala (Sri Lanka), Ba đậu, ba đậu tàu, mần để (Vietnam)
Description
A small, evergreen tree with ash-coloured, smooth bark. Leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or rounded at the 2-glanded base, acuminate, membranous,yellowish green, minutely toothed. Flowers small, unisexual; males on slenderpedicles; females larger on short thick pedicles. Fruits ovoid or oblong, 3-gonous.Seeds smooth, testa black. (India)
A shrub or treelet up to 3m tall; leaves ovate, 7.5-17cm x 4-9.5cm, base broadlyrounded to attenuate, with 2 sessile to distinctly stalked glands on the margin, apexobtuse to acute, margin very shallowly serrate, lower surface subglabrous with a fewstellate hairs, basally 5-nerved, stipules caducous, subulate, 1.5-3.5mm long; inflorescence glabrous; staminate flowers: sepals subglabrous, tips bearded, petals narrowly oblong, hairy, stamens 15-20, glabrous, disk glands small; pistillate flowers: sepals villous at base, petals absent, disk obscure, annular, ovary oblong; fruit obtusely trigonous, 2-2.5cm in diameter, white, scabrid with stellate hairs. Croton tigliumis found in a wide range of vegetation and soil types, up to 1500m altitude, planted around villages. It mainly flowers from October to May in Java. (Malaysia)
Medium-sized tree, 3-6m in height. Leaves altemate, toothed, glabrous, pinkish-violet when young. Inflorescence in terminal raceme; flowers umsexual, monoecious; female flowers without petals. Capsule ovoid, obtusely 3-lobed, yellow. Seeds small with hard brownish-yellow shell (Vietnam)
Uses
Emollient, purgative, abdominal ailments, constipation, helminthiasis, cough,bronchitis, fever, leucoderma, ascites, ant-catarrhal, irritant, bronchitis, asthma,paralysis (India)
Poison, snake bite, purgative (Malaysia)
Dysentery, fever, lung ailments, skin diseases, tuberculosis, cold (Sri Lanka)
Flatulence, dyspepsia, constipation, colic, oedema, dyspnoea, cough (Vietnam)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna, Haldummu
Vietnam - Tam Dao
Remarks
Croton tiglium (GRIN)

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