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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MS130 : Ziziphus oenopolia (L.) Mill.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Rosales
Family : Rhamnaceae - Buckthorn family
Genus : Ziziphus Mill. - jujube
Species : Ziziphus oenoplia(L.) Mill.
Plant Location in Melghat : Frequent, on slopes of low hills.  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : RHAMNACEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : Jackal Jujube, Small-Fruited Jujube, Wild Jujube • Hindi: Makkay, Makai • Marathi: Burgi • Tamil: Suraimullu, Surai ilantai • Malayalam: Tutali, Cheriyalanta, Tutari • Telugu: Paraki, Paragi, Paringi • Kannada: Pargi, Barige, karisurimullu, Harasurali • Bengali: Siakul • Sanskrit: Karkandhauh
 
Synonym : Girtanneria oenopolia (L.) Neck.
Rhamnus oenopolia L.
Ziziphus albens Roxb.
Ziziphus celtidifolia DC.
Ziziphus latifolia Blanco
Ziziphus lotus Blanco
Ziziphus napeca Roxb.
Ziziphus pallens Wall.
Ziziphus pedicellala Wall.
Ziziphus rufula Miq.
Ziziphus scandens Roxb.
Description : a very thorny straggling shrub with rusty-velvety young branches with paired thorns. Thorns are one straight and the other recurved. Alternately arranged simple leaves are ovate to ovate-lancelike, often oblique, with three prominent nerves and numerous transverse nervules. Tiny green flowers are borne in nearly stalkless velvety cymes in leaf axils. Fruits are spherical or obovoid drupes, black, shining, seeds woody.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The juice of the roots is applied to fresh cuts and wounds. A decoction of the root bark is used to heal fresh wounds. The bark contains tannins and is astringent. A paste of the inner bark is applied as a poultice to obstinate wounds. A decoction of the fruit is used as a treatment for indigestion. The fruit is an ingredient of a stomachache pill. The roots are astringent bitter, anthelmintic, digestive and anti-septic. They are useful in hyperacidity, ascaris infection, stomachalgia and healing of wounds.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Zizyphine C
Zizyphine A
Zizyphine F
Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :