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                                             Spondias pinnata (L.f.) Kurz.

Synonym	:	Mangifera pinnata L.f.
Family	:	Anacardiaceae
Local name	:	English-  Hog plum Malayalam- Ambazham, Mampuli
Flowering and fruiting period	:	March - December
Distribution	:	Indo-Malaysia
Distribution in kerala	:	All districts
Habitat	:	Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, also in the plains.
Endemic /Exotic		Endemic to Malaysia the Philippines and Indochina.
Uses	:	Leaves and bark are good for dysentery; bark in bilious dyspepsia; leaf juice is applied in earache; fruit pulp is in dyspepsia, thirst and tuberculosis.
Key botanical characters:   Deciduous trees, Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the end of branches, estipulate; rachis 25-45 cm, slender, glabrous, swollen at base. Flowers polygamous, yellowish-white, subsessile, in terminal spreading panicles; cell, Fruit a fleshy drupe, 3, yellow, endocarp woody surround by longitudinal interwoven fibres,seeds 1-3, of which only one is perfect, pendulous, oblong.