Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Caesalpinia coriaria (Jacq.) Willd.
Family Name	Caesalpiniaceae
Common Name	DiviDivi and American Sumac
Tamil Name	இங்கிமரம்
Life Form	leguminous tree
Distribution	Tropical Africa, Asia and Australia
Botanical Distribution	Habit: Crooked and spreading small tree, usually up to 10m tall, but sometimes much taller. Leaves: Alternate, bipinnate, pinnae in 3–9 pairs; leaflets in12–28 pairs per pinna, sessile, oblong-linear, with black dots beneath. Flower: Inflorescence an axillary raceme or panicle. Flowers - bisexual, zygomorphic, 5-merous, fragrant; sepals free, imbricate, usually unequal, the lowest one hoodshaped; petals free, pale yellow, stamens 10, free, subequal,filaments hairy at base; ovary superior, 1-celled, styleslender, stigma truncate. Fruit: Indehiscent pod, flexuous and twisted, pale toblackish brown, 1–10-seeded. Seed: ellipsoid or reniform and glossy brown.
Flowering and Fruiting	Throughout the year
Key Compounds	Gallotannin and ellagitannins: corilagin, chebulagic acid and neo-chebulagic acid
Medicinal Use	Antiperiodics, Haemorrhoids, Sores, Abscesses and Chronic wounds
At the Campus	Throughout the campus