Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Crescentia alata. Kunth.
Family Name	Bignoniaceae
Common Name	Gourd Tree
Tamil Name	திருவோட்டுக் காய்
Life Form	Perennial Tree
Distribution	Throughout the world
Botanical Distribution	Habit: tall tree Leaves: Glabrous leaves arranged in alternate fascicles, smaller simple leaves. Tri folio late leaves with a long, winged, petiole, and three leaf lets linear to obovate, rounded at apex. Flower: Bell-shaped, solitary, yellow green to maroon. Calyx: sepals are 5,Polysepalous. corolla; Petals 5, polypetalous. Androecium:, five stamens subexerted, and stigma bilamellated, Gynoecium: Ovary superior, 1-celled, placenta 2,ovary unilocular with many ovules.
Flowering and Fruiting	Throughout the year.
Key Compounds	protein, fatty acid,polyphenol, tannin, amino acid
Medicinal Use	used to decrease various respiratory afflictions including asthma, bronchitis, and cough.
At the Campus	Throughout the Campus