Xylyocarpus MOLUCCENSIS (Lam.) M.Roem.
| Synonym : | Carapa moluccensis Lam. Carapa borneensis Becc. Carapa indica A.Juss. Granatum moluccense (Lam.) |
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| Bangla Name : | Passur, Pussur (Sunderbans), Ail (Chakaria Sunderban). |
| English Name : | The Puzzle Fruit Tree. |
| Family : | Meliaceae |
| Disease : | Dysentery, diarrhoea ,swellings of the breast,elephantiasis |
| Description : | A tall, glabrous, evergreen tree about 12 m high, with comperatively small crown. Leaves abruptly paripinnate, 10-25 cm long, leaflets usually 2, sometimes 3 pairs, thinly ovate from broad base, shortly bluntish-acuminate, 5-10 cm long. Flowers small, pinkish yellow in slender, lax panicles, 7-12 cm long, in the axils of leaves. Fruit the size of an orange, globose, 4-grooved, 7-13 cm across. |
| Distribution : | In mangrove forests of the southern districts. (Sundarban, Chakaria Sundarban). |
| Chemical Constituents : | Limonoids, xyloccensins A,B,C,D,E and F and methyl-angolensate have been isolated from seeds (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1993). |
| Uses : | The uses are more or less same as Xylocarpus granatum (no. 735). Juice of stem bark and young fruits is taken as laxative. |
| Habit : | Tree |