Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Carissa carandas L.
Family Name	Apocynaceae
Common Name	Bengal currant,Carandas plum,karanda.
Tamil Name	கலாக்காய்
Life Form	Small tree
Distribution	Throughout the world.
Botanical Distribution	Habit: Small tree or shrub Leaves:Simple,Opposite,Reticulate,Entire. Flower: Small,White,fragrant,Pedicellate,Night blooming,Odorous, Bracteates, Bracts linear. Calyx: Sepals: 5, Ovate,Green, sepals have a pointed tip, Margin: Entire. Corolla:Petals: 5,Funnel-shaped, white Petals are arranged in a whorl Androecium:Stamens 5,Whorled,pale yellow. Gynoecium: Superior, bicarpellary, Axile,short style. Fruit: Capsule,Globular, Brown. Seeds: Reniform (kidney-shaped)
Flowering and Fruiting	June – April
Key Compounds	Flavonoids,Quercetin, Kaempferol, Isorhapontigenin Alkaloids,Pterospermin,Canescine, Glycosides,Pterospermum glycoside,Canescenside
Medicinal Use	Antidiabetic,febrifuge,Analgesic,Antirheumatic.Wound healing
At the Campus	Botany Herbal Garden