MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT107 : Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Delile |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On the outskirts, at hill foots | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | ZYGOPHYLLACEAE | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Desert Date, Egyptian myrobalan, heglig, Jericho balsam, simple thorned torch tree, simple-thorned torchwood, soap berry tree • Hindi: hingot, hingan, hingan-ka-per, ingudi, hingor • Kannada: ingala, ingalarade, ingalare • Malayalam: namunta, nanchunta • Marathi: hingalbet, hingam • Sanskrit: tapasadruma, angaravrksa, hinguputra • Tamil: nanchundan, nancuntan • Telugu: gara, gara-chettu • Urdu: hingot | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Agialida abyssinica Van Tiegh Agialida aegyptiaca (L.) Kuntze Agialida arabica Van Tiegh. Agialida barteri Van Tiegh Agialida cuneifolia Tiegh. Agialida glomerata Tiegh. Agialida latifolia Van Tiegh. Agialida membranacea Tiegh. Agialida nigra Van Tiegh Agialida palaestinaca Tiegh. Agialida roxburghii Kuntze Agialida schimperi Van Tiegh Agialida tombouctensis Van Tiegh Balanites aegyptica Wall. Balanites arabica Blatter Balanites fischeri Mildbraed & Schlechter Balanites indica Van Tiegh. Balanites jacquemontii Van Tiegh. Balanites latifolia (van Tiegh.) Chiov. Balanites roxburghii Planch. Balanites suckertii Chiov. Balanites zizyphoides Mildbraed & Schlechter Ximenia aegyptiaca L. Ximenia agihalid Mill. |
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| Description : | a thorn tree growing up to 30 ft tall, with a generally narrow form. The branches are thorny. The dark green compound leaves are made up of two leathery leaflets which are variable in size and shape. Leaf-stalk is channeled, 0.5-2 cm with a short rachis. Leaflets are entire, generally up to 6 cm long, 4 cm broad, although can be smaller (1-3 x 0.3-1.5 cm). Greenish stalkless flowers are borne in few-flowered fascicles. Flower buds are ovoid and velvety. Individual flowers are 8-14 mm in diameter and generally greenish-yellow. Flower-stalks are densely greyish, velvety and rarely reaching 1 cm in length. Fruit is ellipsoid, up to 4 cm long, green. Ripe fruit is brown or pale brown with a brittle coat enclosing a brown or brown-green sticky pulp and a hard stone seed. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The roots are purgative and vermifuge. A decoction of the root is used to treat malaria. The roots are boiled in a soup to be used in the treatment of oedema and stomach pains. They are also used as an emetic. The bark is purgative and vermifuge. An infusion of the bark is used to treat heartburn. Wood gum, mixed with maize meal porridge, is used to treat chest pains. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | diosgenin Balagyptin Balanitesin Bergapten Cryptogenin Deltonin Nodakenetin oleic acid palmitic acid Rhamnose SYRINGIC ACID Vanillic acid Yamogenin |
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| Reference : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
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