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Millingtonia hortensis L.f.
Synonym
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Bignonia
azedarachta
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Family
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Bignoniaceae
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Local name
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English - Tree Jasmine
Malayalam -
Akasaveppu, Maramalli, Kadesam
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Flowering and fruiting period
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March-August
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Distribution
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South East Asia and
Malesia
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown as ornamental
tree
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Tannin from the bark
is antipyretic.
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Trees, to 15 m high;
bark pale brown, corky. Leaves 2-3 pinnate, opposite, estipulate; rachis
45-70 cm long, pinnae 11-17 pairs, leaflets 3-5, opposite; lamina ovate or
elliptic-ovate. Flowers bisexual, white, in terminal corymbose panicles;
calyx 4 mm, cupular, puberulous; lobes 5, 1 mm, obtuse; corolla 2.5 cm
across; tube narrow, cylindric, 7 cm, throat wide; lobes 5, subequal; stamens
4, didynamous, filaments 1 and 1.5 cm long; anthers oblong, 1-cell fertile,
other reduced to an appendage; disc annular; ovary superior, subsessile,
conical, ovules many; style slender; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit an elongated
capsule, 2-valved; seeds many, winged.
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