Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Sterculia guttata Roxb. ex DC.
Family Name	Sterculiaceae
Common Name	Nagod, Chaste Tree
Tamil Name	காவலம், குதிரை பிடுக்கு
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	Southern India, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands.
Botanical Distribution	Habit: Spotted Sterculia is a tree with a straight trunk. Leaves: Leaves are hairless above, velvety beneath, oblong-ovate acute or acuminate. Leaf base is rounded or nearly heart-shaped. Flowers: Panicles are sparingly branched. Flowerbuds are spherical. Flowers are chiefly male. Sepal tube 1/3 inches densely rusty hairy outside, glandular within, bell-shaped and divided into 5; segments broadly ovate-acute, ultimately reflexed, covered with long hairs. Flowers are yellow, with purple glands on the inside of the petals. Anthers 12, Fruits: Ovary stalked, spherical, 3-5-lobed. Style curved, stigma 3-5 lobed. Follicles 1-5, size of a small apple, each about 3 inches, obovoid, covered with reddish down, smooth, pink within.
Flowering and Fruiting	December.
Key Compounds	procyanidin, scutellarein, luteolin taraxerol, notacosanol beta-sitosterol. Lupenone, lupeol botulin, cyclopropene fatty acids, Sterculic and malvalic acids
Medicinal Use	dropsy and rheumatism; as aperient, diaphoretic, and diuretic, skin eruptions, itching and skin diseases;
At the Campus	Botanical Garden