Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Tectona grandis L.f.
Family Name	Verbenaceae
Common Name	Teak, Saag, Sagwan
Tamil Name	தேக்கு
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	Karaikal, Niravy, Thirunallar, Kotucherry,
Botanical Distribution	Habit: A large, deciduous tree with square, channeled, hairy stem. Leaves: Very large, opposite or whorled, entire, elliptic or obovate, acute, rough and hairy. Inflorescence: Large, terminal, branched, hairy cymose panicles. Flowers: Bracteate, bracts lanceolate at the forks, bracteoles below the calyx, linear. Calyx 5-6 lobed, bell-shaped, hairy, enlarged and bladder-like in fruit and enclosing it, ovoid, crumpled, veined. Corolla white, lobes 5-6, unequal, imbricate. Stamens 5, on the base of the corolla. Ovary: Ovary 4-celled, fleshy, ovule in each cell, style slender, stigma bifid. Fruit: Drupe subglobose, pericarp soft with felted stellate hairs, endocarp bony, enclosed in accrescent calyx, seed exalbuminous.
Flowering and Fruiting	June - September
Key Compounds	Astectoquinone, 5-hydroxylapachol, tectol, betulinic acid, betulinic aldehyde, squalene, lapachol
Medicinal Use	Antibacterial, antioxidant, antifungal, antiinflammatory, anti-pyretic, analgesic, anti-diuretic, and hypoglycemic
At the Campus	Staff Bike Stand