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Careya arborea
Synonym
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Barringtonia arborea
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Family
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Lecythidaceae
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Local name
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English-Wild guava
Malayalam-Peru
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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February-July
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Distribution
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Tropical Asia
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Moist and dry deciduous forests, also in the plains
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Uses
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Cold infusion of the bark of Careya
arborea is given in a dose of 30 – 40 ml to treat cough and
fever. The powder of the bark of the tree is sprinkled over the wounds for
quick healing. The leaves of is made into poultice and applied over
wounds and ulcers for quick healing.
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Key botanical
characters :
Deciduous trees, to 12 m high,
brownish, rough, exfoliations small, more or less triangular; fibrous;
branchlets pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tips of
branchlets, obovate, oblong-obovate, , glabrous, membranous; petiole slender,
pubescent; Flowers bisexual, greenish-white,, , in terminal spikes; peduncle
woody; bracts 3, unequal. Calyx tube campanulate, glabrous, adnate to ovary
and not produced beyond the ovary; lobes 4, ovate, imbricate. Petals 4,
elliptic-oblong, revolute along margin, cauducous; disc annular.. Fruit a
berry, globose, green, pericarp fibrous, crowned with sepals and style.
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