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Annona muricata L.
Synonym
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Annona bonplandiana Kunth
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Family
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Annonaceae
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Local name
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English- Graviola, Prickly Custard Apple
Malayalam- Mullanjakka ,Mulluathi
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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April - October
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Distribution
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Native of
Central America and West
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Distribution
in kerala
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All
districts
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Habitat
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cultivated
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Uses
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Leaves and
flowers used in nephropathy, cough, dysentery, worm trouble and fever. Bark
is purgative.
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Key
botanical characters:
Trees,
Leaves simple, alternate, distichous. Flowers yellowish-green,solitary,
axillary or from mature branches;sepals 3, triangular persistent; petals
6(3+3) ovate-acute, yellow, thick, glabrous. Stamens many, long, linear.
Fruits ovoid to obovoid, green, covered with curved spines, stout; seeds
many, reddish brown.  |
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