Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Ficus benghalensis L
Family Name	Moraceae
Common Name	Vad, Banyan
Tamil Name	ஆலமரம்
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Punit Van, Sarita Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra
Botanical Distribution	Habit: A very large tree with aerial roots. Leaves: Ovate, obtuse, entire, coriaceous, bud-scale stipules. Inflorescence :Hypanthodium, receptacles in sessile pairs, axillary globose, red when ripe, with 3 basalbracts. Flower: Male, female and gall flowers enclosed in an axillary, sessile, depressed globose figs; red when ripe. Flowering throughout the year. tepals :2-3, brownish, glabrous; stamens 1; female flowers sesile; tepals 3-4, shortly connate. Gynoecium:ovary straight, long excentric. Fruit: Syconus red, globose Seeds: Bayan fig, ovate, yellowish, papery
Flowering and Fruiting	November-January
Key Compounds	lupeol, terpenoids, CuNFs, sitosterol, lanosterol, phytol, quinic acid, myristic acid, β-progesterone, enzymes proteases, and benghalensin.
Medicinal Use	reating a variety of skin conditions, menstrual anomalies, relieving diarrhoea and dysentery, and remedying inflammation, treating gum diseases, managing diabetes and many more.
At the Campus	In the front of Auditorium