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Strychnos nux-vomica L.

Synonym	:	Strychnos spireana Dop
Family	:	LOGANIACEAE
Local name	:	English-  Nux Vomica Tree, Poison Tree Malayalam- Kanjiram
Flowering and fruiting period	:	March - December
Distribution	:	Indo-Malesia
Distribution in kerala	:	All Districts
Habitat	:	Moist and dry deciduous forests, also in the plains
Endemic /Exotic		Endemic to Southeast Asia and Australia
Uses	:	Seed is used in the treatment of intermittent fever, dyspepsia, chronic dysentery, chronic rheumatism, impotence, heart disease, spermatorrhoea and skin diseases.
Key botanical characters: Trees, to 20 m high, bark thin, yellowish or blackish-grey, smooth or scurfy with lenticels. Leaves simple, opposite, prominent, glabrous; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, greenish-white, in terminal sessile cymes,acute, pubescent. Corolla greenish-yellow, longer than lobes, slightly hairy near the base within.Fruit a berry yellowish-red or orange, glabrous; seeds 3 or 4, orbicular, flat, shiny, greenish-white. .