Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Vitex negundo L. var. negundo
Family Name	Verbenaceae
Common Name	Nagod, Chaste Tree
Tamil Name	நொச்சி, வெண்நொச்சி, நீர்நொச்சி, நல்லநொச்சி
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	South and Southeast Asia
Botanical Distribution	Habit: A small tree with square, white and hairy stem. Leaves: Opposite, 3-5 foliate, leaflets petioled, lanceolate, acute, terminal leaflet largest, white hairy below. Inflorescence: Branched, hairy cymes, forming a large in terminal panicle. Flowers: Bracteate, bracts lanceolate, caduceus. Calyx bell-shaped, white-hairy, teeth 5, triangular. Corolla bluish purple, bilipped, upper lip divided into 2 lobes, lower lip 3-lobed.Stamens 4, didynamous, filaments hairy at the base. Ovary: Ovary glabrous, 4-celled, ovules 4, style slender, stigma bifid. Fruits: Drupe surrounded at the base by the calyx.
Flowering and Fruiting	More or less throughout the year.
Key Compounds	carryophyllene epoxide and ethyl-hexadecenoate; αselinene, germacren-4-ol, carryophyllene epoxide and (E)-nerolidol while showed β-selinene, α-cedrenegermacrene D and hexadecanoic acid
Medicinal Use	Headache, skin affections, wounds, swelling, asthmatic pains, male and female sexual and reproductive problems.
At the Campus	Botanical Garden