Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Thespesia populnea (L.) Soland ex Correa
Family Name	Malvaceae
Common Name	Paras Pipado, Indian Tulip Tree, Aden apple, Portia Tree, Paras Bhendi
Tamil Name	பூவரசு
Life Form	Large Tree
Distribution	Indroda Park, Van Chetana Kendra, Aranya Van
Botanical Distribution	Habit: A medium-sized tree with a spreading crown of branches. Leaves: Smooth, somewhat similar to those of the Pipal tree, broadly ovate, cordate, acuminate entire, 5- nerved, often with a glandular pore in one or more of the intercostal spaces below.Stipules triangular, deciduous. Flowers: Inflorescence – Axillary, Calyx copular, truncate. Corolla large, yellow with purple base. Staminal tube toothed at the apex. Ovary half-5 celled style club-shaped at the apex, 5furrowed. Fruit: Capsules, globose, covered with minute peltate scales, surrounded at the base by persistent calyx.
Flowering and Fruiting	Almost throughout the year, particularly at the beginning of the cold season.
Key Compounds	Quinones; Mansonone D, mansonone H, thespone, and thespesone
Medicinal Use	The juice of the fruit is used in skin diseases.The leaves are employed as application to swollen joints.
At the Campus	Botanical garden