Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Aegle marmelos (L) correa
Family Name	Rutaceae
Common Name	Aegle quinces
Tamil Name	வில்வம் அல்லது வில்வை
Life Form	Deciduous tree
Distribution	The tree is a native of India
Botanical Distribution	Habit: A thorny deciduoustree, with grayish - white or grayish - brown, smoothbark. Stem : Woody, erect, cylindrical and branched Leaves: Exstipulate, petiolate, compound, trifoliate, leaflets ovate - elliptic or elliptic - lanceolate, glabrous. Flower: Bracteate, complete, actinomorphic, hypogynous, pentamerous, Flowers greenish. Calyx: Calyx 5, gamosepalous. Corolla: Corolla 5, polypetalous, imbricate. Fruit: Berries 6 - 10 cm across, globose or subglobose, with rough rind; rind greenish-white, on ripening yellow. Seeds: obliquely lenticular or oblong, wrinkled, pale - brown, glabrous.
Flowering and Fruiting	January - May, February - July
Key Compounds	imperatorin (54), aegelin, lupeol, eugenol (7), cineocitronellal etc.
Medicinal Use	constipation, diarrhea, diabetes, and other conditions, anti-inflammatory in nature.
At the Campus	Botany Herbal Garden