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Jacaranda
mimosifolia D. Don
Synonym
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Jacaranda chelonia
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Family
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Bignoniaceae
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Local name
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English- Jacaranda
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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December-July
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Distribution
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Native of South America
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Planted as ornamental tree
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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The dried leaves of Jacaranda are used in an ointment for
healing wounds. Leaves also used as a
vulnerary, their infusion given as a pectoral. An infusion of the bark is
used as a lotion for washing ulcers. The bark and leaves are also used for
treating syphilis and gonorrhoea.
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Key
botanical characters:
Deciduous trees, to 12 m high. Leaves bipinnate, opposite, decussate,
estipulate; rachis 24-30 cm long, stout, swollen at base, glabrous; pinnae
15-18 pairs, 4.5-7 cm, opposite or subopposite, slender, shortly winged
between each leaflet; leaflets 21-50, opposite, sessile; lamina 0. 6-1.5 ×
0.2-0.3 cm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, base acute, apex acute or
acuminate and apiculate, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous beneath,
coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, intercostae
reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, blue, in lax pyramidal panicles terminal
or axillary; pedicels 4 mm; calyx truncate, lobes 5; corolla 5 x 3 cm; tube
narrow and curved below, inflated above; limb 2-lipped; lobes 5, round;
stamens 4, didynamous; filaments 2 cm, converging apically, basally hairy;
anthers 4 mm; staminodes 3 cm, apically hairy; ovary superior, 2-celled;
ovules many; style 2.5 cm, apically 2-fid, bluish. Fruit a capsule, 5 cm
across, orbicular, apically mucronate, woody; seeds many, 8 ×5 mm, winged
around.
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