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Rhododendron
arboreum J. E. Smith
Synonym
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Rhododendron arboreum var. album Wall.
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Family
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Ericaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam – Alanchi
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Flowering and fruiting period
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February-June
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Distribution
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Southern Western Ghats
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Distribution in kerala
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Idukki, Palakkad
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Habitat
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Shola forests
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Uses
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The
young leaves are astringent and poultice. They are made into a
pasteand then applied to the forehead in the treatment of headaches. The
juice of the bark is used in the treatment of coughs, diarrhoea and
dysentery.
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Trees, bark brown,
rough, vertically shallowly fissured, flaking off in scales; branchlets
stout. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered towards the tip of branchlets,
estipulate; petiole stout, tomentose; lamina oblong-ovate, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, base obtuse or round,
apex obtuse, apiculate, margin entire, glabrous above, tomentose beneath;
lateral nerves 8-14 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint.
Flowers bisexual, dark crimson or pink, in terminal capitate racemes, rarely
solitary or axillary; bracts broad, silky, cauducous; bracteoles linear;
calyx lobes 5; corolla urceolate; lobes 5; stamens 10, free.
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