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Careya arborea

Scientific Name
Careya arborea
Family Name
Lecythidaceae
Common Names
Kumbi
Local Names
Kumbi (India), Kahata (Sri Lanka)
Description
A small, deciduous tree of about 15m high with thick dark grey bark having shallowcracks. Leaves simple, alternate, broadly obovate or obovate-oblong, rounded orshortly acuminate, membranous, crowded at the ends of branches. Flowers yellowish-white, large, showy, foul-smelling, in thick swollen hard terminal spikes. Sepals andpetals 4, stamens many. Fruits large, globose, green, glabrous berries, crowned withpersistent calyx and style. (India)
Uses
Credited alexeteric, expectorant, anthelmintic, anti pyretic, tumours, cough, bronchitis,catarrh, dyspepsia, colic, intestinal worms, eruptions, ulcers, vaginal ruptures,dyspepsia (India)
Anti pyretic (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Meegahak, Pinna, Haldummu, Ganewatta
Remarks
Careya arborea (GRIN)

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