Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Limonia acidissima L.
Family Name	Rutaceae
Common Name	Wood Apple
Tamil Name	விளா, விளாங்கை
Life Form	Tree, up to 8 m tall
Distribution	Tropical Africa, Asia and Australia
Botanical Distribution	Habit: Tree, up to 8 m tall; bark blackish. Leaves: Leaves alternate, imparipinnate; leaflets opposite, 2 - 4-pairs, elliptic-oblong to obovate, cuneateat base, minutely crenate at margin, obtuse-retuse at apex, glabrous; 4 - 6-pairs, Panicles axillary. Flower: Flowers cream yellow. Calyx-lobe 5, connate, small, ciliate at margin. Petals 5, lanceolate, shortlyapiculate at apex. Annuals disk hairy. Stamens 10;filament, anther oblong, purple. Fruit: Ovary ovoid-globose, glabrous; 5 - 6-loculed; ovules many; style ellipsoid, thick, stigma shortly lobed. Berries broadly globose. Seeds: Seeds many, oblong, compressed.
Flowering and Fruiting	Jan. - April.
Key Compounds	Carbohydrates, Proteins, beta-carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C, thiamine, and riboflavin.
Medicinal Use	Indigestion, Flatulence, Diarrhoea, Dysentery
At the Campus	Entrance of girls hostel