Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. var. mauritiana
Family Name	Rhamnaceae
Common Name	Indian Jujube, Indian Plum, Bor, MotaBor
Tamil Name	இலந்தை
Life Form	Tree up to 6 m high
Distribution	South and Central Asia and China
Botanical Distribution	Habit: A small thorny tree. Leaves: Small, ovate or roundish, slightly oblique, glabrous above, buff hairy below, 3-nerved, stipulate, stipules spiny-one straight and other hooked. Flowers: Greenish-yellow, axillary cymes. Calyx 5fid, hairy. Petals 5, hooked, rounded. Stamens 5, enclosed in the petals. Disk with 10 grooved lobes. Ovary: Ovary half sunk in disk, ovoid, styles 2, connate for about half their length. Fruit : Globose, smooth, yellow, red all when ripe.
Flowering and Fruiting	September - October
Key Compounds	Vitamin C, sugar, minerals, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and carotene, proteins, fat, and carbohydrates.
Medicinal Use	Anti-aging, Anti-tumor, Anti-inflammatory, Anodyne, anticancer, pectoral, refrigerant, sedative, stomachic, styptic and tonic
At the Campus	Front of the NSS office