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Bauhinia hookeri
Family Fabaceae
The Edison/Ford Winter Estates, Fort Myers, Florida, USA.
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The flower of the Mountain Ebony (Hindi: कचनार) is the State Flower of Bihar.
Leguminosae or Fabaceae s. l. (legume, pea, or bean family) » Bauhinia variegata L.
baw-HIN-ee-uh -- named for Gaspard and Jean Bauhin, physicians and botanists ... Dave's Botanary
var-ee-GAY-tuh -- variegated ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: camel's foot, mountain ebony, Napoleon's hat, orchid tree, paper mulberry, poor man's orchid, variegated bauhinia, variegated orchid tree • Assamese: কাঞ্চন kanchan • Bengali: রক্তকাঞ্চন raktakanchan • Gujarati: કાંચનાર kanchnar • Hindi: कचनाल kachnal, कचनार kachnar • Kannada: ಕಾಂಚನಾರ kanchanaara, ಕಂಚುವಾಳ kanchuvaala, ಕೆಮ್ಪು ಮಮ್ದಾರ kempu mandaara • Malayalam: കൊങ്ങു konnu, കോവിദാരം kovidaram, മന്ദാരം mandaram, ഉങ്ങു unnu • Manipuri: চিঙথ্ৰাও chingthrao • Marathi: कांचन kanchan, कांचनार kanchnar, कोविदार kovidar, रक्तकांचन raktakanchan • Mizo: vau-be • Nepali: कोइरालो koiralo • Oriya: ୟୁଗପତ୍ର jugapatra, କରକ karaka, କୋବିଦାର kobidara, ରକ୍ତକଞ୍ଚନ raktakanchana, ଶାତ କୁମ୍ଭ sata kumbha, ସ୍ବଳ୍ପ କେଶରୀ swalpa kesari, ତାମ୍ର ପୁଷ୍ପ tamra pushpa • Pali: कोविळार kovilara • Punjabi: ਕਚਨਾਲ kachnal, ਕਚਨਾਰ kachnar • Sanskrit: काञ्चनार kanchanara • Tamil: செம்மந்தாரை cem-mantarai, சிவப்புமந்தாரை civappu-mantarai, மலையாத்தி malai-y-atti, பெரியவாத்தி periya-v-atti, பெருமந்தாரை peru-mantarai, வரையாத்தி varai-y-atti, வடராசி vataraci • Telugu: కాంచనము kanchanamu • Urdu: کچنار kachnar
Distribution: s China, Bhutan, India, Indo-China; widely naturalized; also cultivated; exact native range obscure
References: Flowers of India • Wikipedia • PIER species info • NPGS / GRIN
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This flower demonstrates the wide variation in colors in the same Mountain Ebony or the Orchid tree.
Bauhinia variegata
Family Fabaceae
Roadside tree, Rockledge, Florida, USA.
NOTE: Not to be confused with Bauhinia purpurea.
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The Mountain Ebony is so invasive in Florida that it had made the following list;
Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's List of Invasive Plant Species
www.fleppc.org/eddmaps/florida.cfm
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Leguminosae or Fabaceae s. l. (legume, pea, or bean family) » Bauhinia variegata L.
baw-HIN-ee-uh -- named for Gaspard and Jean Bauhin, physicians and botanists ... Dave's Botanary
var-ee-GAY-tuh -- variegated ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: camel's foot, mountain ebony, Napoleon's hat, orchid tree, paper mulberry, poor man's orchid, variegated bauhinia, variegated orchid tree • Assamese: কাঞ্চন kanchan • Bengali: রক্তকাঞ্চন raktakanchan • Gujarati: કાંચનાર kanchnar • Hindi: कचनाल kachnal, कचनार kachnar • Kannada: ಕಾಂಚನಾರ kanchanaara, ಕಂಚುವಾಳ kanchuvaala, ಕೆಮ್ಪು ಮಮ್ದಾರ kempu mandaara • Malayalam: കൊങ്ങു konnu, കോവിദാരം kovidaram, മന്ദാരം mandaram, ഉങ്ങു unnu • Manipuri: চিঙথ্ৰাও chingthrao • Marathi: कांचन kanchan, कांचनार kanchnar, कोविदार kovidar, रक्तकांचन raktakanchan • Nepali: कोइरालो koiralo • Oriya: ୟୁଗପତ୍ର jugapatra, କରକ karaka, କୋବିଦାର kobidara, ରକ୍ତକଞ୍ଚନ raktakanchana, ଶାତ କୁମ୍ଭ sata kumbha, ସ୍ବଳ୍ପ କେଶରୀ swalpa kesari, ତାମ୍ର ପୁଷ୍ପ tamra pushpa • Pali: कोविळार kovilara • Punjabi: ਕਚਨਾਲ kachnal, ਕਚਨਾਰ kachnar • Sanskrit: काञ्चनार kanchanara • Tamil: செம்மந்தாரை cem-mantarai, சிவப்புமந்தாரை civappu-mantarai, மலையாத்தி malai-y-atti, பெரியவாத்தி periya-v-atti, பெருமந்தாரை peru-mantarai, வரையாத்தி varai-y-atti, வடராசி vataraci • Telugu: కాంచనము kanchanamu • Urdu: کچنار kachnar
... and several more names in Sanskrit: आस्फोत asphota, अतिमुक्तक atimuktaka, चमरिक chamarik, चम्प champa, गण्डारि gandari, गिरिज girija, हयवाहनशङ्कर hayavahanashankara, कनकान्तक kanakantaka, कनकारक kanakaraka, काञ्चनक kanchanaka, कान्तपुष्प kantapuspa, कान्तार kantara, कर्बुदार karbudara, कोविदार kovidara, कुदार kudara, कूद्दाल kuddala, कुण्डल kundala, महापुष्प mahapuspa, मन्दारः mandarah, रक्तपुष्प raktapuspa, सत्काञ्चनार satkanchanara, शोणपुष्पक shonapuspaka, सिंहास्य simhasya, सुवर्णार suvarnara, स्वल्पकेसरिन् svalpakesarin, ताम्रपुष्पक tamrapuspaka, वरलब्ध varalabdha, विदल vidala, विशालत्वच् vishalatvacha, यमलच्छद yamalacchada, युगपत्त्र yugapattra, युग्मपर्ण yugmaparna, युग्मपत्त्र yugmapattra
Distribution: s China, Bhutan, India, Indo-China; widely naturalized; also cultivated; exact native range obscure
References: Flowers of India • Wikipedia • PIER species info • NPGS / GRIN
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THIS IS NOT HONGKONG ORCHID TREE (Bauhinia blakeana)
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One is in full bloom and the other is wilted..
Bauhinia variegata
Family Fabaceae
Parking Lot landscaping, Rockledge, Florida, USA.
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The Mountain Ebony is so invasive that it had made the following list;
Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's List of Invasive Plant Species
www.fleppc.org/eddmaps/florida.cfm
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THIS IS NOT HONGKONG ORCHID TREE (Bauhinia blakeana)
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Profusion of blooms all over this tree.
Bauhinia variegata
Family Fabaceae
Parking Lot landscaping, Rockledge, Florida, USA.
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The Mountain Ebony is so invasive that it had made the following list;
Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's List of Invasive Plant Species
www.fleppc.org/eddmaps/florida.cfm
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Flowers of the Mountain Ebony tree, also called the Orchid tree.
Bauhinia variegata
Family Fabaceae
Private Garden, Merritt Island, Florida, USA.
NOTE: Not to be confused with Bauhinia purpurea.
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The Mountain Ebony is so invasive in Florida that it had made the following list;
Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's List of Invasive Plant Species
www.fleppc.org/eddmaps/florida.cfm
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A flower of the Mountain Ebony tree, also called the Orchid tree.
Bauhinia variegata
Family Fabaceae
Private Garden, Merritt Island, Florida, USA.
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NOTE: Not to be confused with Bauhinia purpurea.
The Mountain Ebony is so invasive that it had made the following list;
Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's List of Invasive Plant Species
www.fleppc.org/eddmaps/florida.cfm
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This flower demonstrates the wide variation in colors in the same Mountain Ebony or the Orchid tree.
Bauhinia variegata
Family Fabaceae
Roadside tree, Rockledge, Florida, USA.
NOTE: Not to be confused with Bauhinia purpurea.
===============================================================================
The Mountain Ebony is so invasive in Florida that it had made the following list;
Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's List of Invasive Plant Species
www.fleppc.org/eddmaps/florida.cfm
==============================================================================
Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Bauhinia purpurea
baw-HIN-ee-uh -- named for Gaspard and Jean Bauhin, physicians and botanists
pur-PUR-ee-uh -- meaning, purple
commonly known as: butterfly tree, orchid tree, purple bauhinia • Assamese: kurial, kanchan, og-yok • Bengali: koiral, রক্তকাঞ্চন raktakanchana • Garo: megong • Hindi: कांचन kanchan, लाल कचनार lal kachnar, केवनार kevnar • Kannada: devakanchan, kanjivala, kempu mandaara • Khasi: dieng long • Malayalam: chovanna-mandaru, suvannamandaram • Manipuri: chingthao angangba • Marathi: देवकांचन devakanchan, रक्तकांचन raktakanchan • Mizoram: vaube, vaufavang • Oriya: vaube, borodo • Sanskrit: देवकांचन devakanchan, रक्तकांचन raktakanchan, रक्तकोविदार raktakovidara • Tamil: மந்தாரை mandarai, நீலத்திருவத்தி nilattiruvatti • Telugu: bodanta, దేవకాంచనము devakanjanamu, kanchanam
Origin: India, south-east Asia and Australia
References: Flowers of India • Dave's Garden • Top Tropicals
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Leguminosae or Fabaceae s. l. (legume, pea, or bean family) » Bauhinia variegata L.
baw-HIN-ee-uh -- named for Gaspard and Jean Bauhin, physicians and botanists ... Dave's Botanary
var-ee-GAY-tuh -- variegated ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: camel's foot, mountain ebony, Napoleon's hat, orchid tree, paper mulberry, poor man's orchid, variegated bauhinia, variegated orchid tree • Assamese: কাঞ্চন kanchan • Bengali: রক্তকাঞ্চন raktakanchan • Gujarati: કાંચનાર kanchnar • Hindi: कचनाल kachnal, कचनार kachnar • Kannada: ಕಾಂಚನಾರ kanchanaara, ಕಂಚುವಾಳ kanchuvaala, ಕೆಮ್ಪು ಮಮ್ದಾರ kempu mandaara • Malayalam: കൊങ്ങു konnu, കോവിദാരം kovidaram, മന്ദാരം mandaram, ഉങ്ങു unnu • Manipuri: চিঙথ্ৰাও chingthrao • Marathi: कांचन kanchan, कांचनार kanchnar, कोविदार kovidar, रक्तकांचन raktakanchan • Mizo: vau-be • Nepali: कोइरालो koiralo • Oriya: ୟୁଗପତ୍ର jugapatra, କରକ karaka, କୋବିଦାର kobidara, ରକ୍ତକଞ୍ଚନ raktakanchana, ଶାତ କୁମ୍ଭ sata kumbha, ସ୍ବଳ୍ପ କେଶରୀ swalpa kesari, ତାମ୍ର ପୁଷ୍ପ tamra pushpa • Pali: कोविळार kovilara • Punjabi: ਕਚਨਾਲ kachnal, ਕਚਨਾਰ kachnar • Sanskrit: काञ्चनार kanchanara • Tamil: செம்மந்தாரை cem-mantarai, சிவப்புமந்தாரை civappu-mantarai, மலையாத்தி malai-y-atti, பெரியவாத்தி periya-v-atti, பெருமந்தாரை peru-mantarai, வரையாத்தி varai-y-atti, வடராசி vataraci • Telugu: కాంచనము kanchanamu • Urdu: کچنار kachnar
Distribution: s China, Bhutan, India, Indo-China; widely naturalized; also cultivated; exact native range obscure
References: Flowers of India • Wikipedia • PIER species info • NPGS / GRIN
Bauhinia variegata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to southeastern Asia, from southern China west to Pakistan and India. Common names include Orchid tree, Camel's Foot Tree and Mountain-ebony. It is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 10–12 m tall, deciduous in the dry season. In Bengali it is called ‘Kanchan phool’.( Source :Wikipedia)
Please see my dear friend ilsebatten's comment below: I think this might be the same family.And I was told it had a fruit just like the one shown there.So I'll put the family name in the tag but with a question mark..
THANK YOU SO MUCH dear Ilse.You've been so helpful.
Arkadaşlar , sevgili ilsebatten'in yardımıyla bu ağacın tahmini ailesini bulduğumu sanıyorum : Lütfen ilgileniyorsanız aşağıda ilsebatten'in yorumundan yararlanın.Meyveleri aynen keçi boynuzu gibi..Eğer adını kesin olarak biliyorsanız ,öğrenirsem sevinirim.
Dear LARIGAN,
Thank you very much for taking the time to help me identify the tree ..So you back up the information ILSEBATTEN gave...Very much appreciated.When I return from work I'll add the tags .
The decoration at the Guest house we stayed, PackLuck Villa. I am not sure how I should call this flower..it's from the big tree and very beautiful...
The guesthouse website is here www.packluck.com
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As dusk quickly falls over tropical Lombok, Indonesia, the flowers of the Bauhinia trees are long still visible. The leaf-nose nectarivorous bats swirl out and have a feast with the sweet flowers, as we humans sip our slightly bitter gins-and-tonic.
Named for the French-Swiss Bauhin brothers, Jean (1541-1612; botanist, physician and professor of rhetoric) and Caspar (1560-1624; botanist and physician) by Carolus Linnaeus, they go by the common name of Orchid Tree, Mountain Ebony, Butterfly Tree, but could just as well be called Bat Flower, or Delight of the Hummingbirds, I think.
As far as I know this photo is of Variegata or Purpurea, but please correct me if I am wrong! [I now understand from Tatters:) that it's a hybrid of purpurea and variegata. Thanks. And today February 28, 2011) also from kaiyanwong223: "This is a Bauhinia blakeana". Many thanks to both of you!]
The afternoon was a lazy one, and even the insects and hummingbirds were taking a rest, and the bats were not yet out. This photo was taken near Senggigi, Lombok on an immaculate lawn. We went on to see the sun set over Bali's Agung Mountain, wreathed bluely in the evening mists.
Pink Orchid-tree .......................................
camel's foot tree , mountain-ebony
Casco-de-vaca lilás - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
pata de vaca lilás , unha-de-vaca lilás
PATA DE VACA ROSADA ~~~~~~
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Bauhinia variegata L.
Familia: Fabaceae (fabáceas)
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Es una especie de Asia oriental, bastante cultivada por su hermosa floración, la cual es primaveral en Buenos Aires.
Es originaria de India y Birmania.
Se propaga por semilla desde fines de primavera.
Se cultiva en suelo normal, bien drenado, en lugar soleado y cálido, al abrigo de vientos fríos. En verano se riega con abundancia las plantas jóvenes.
Se trata de un árbol de pequeño a mediano tamaño que crece hasta los 10-12 m de altura, es de hoja caduca en la estación seca.
Las hojas tienen 10-20 cm de largo y ancho, redondeadas, y bilobuladas en la base y el ápice.
Las flores son conspicuas, de color rosa brillante o blanco, de 8-12 cm de diámetro, con cinco pétalos.
El fruto es una vaina de 15-30 cm de largo, conteniendo varias semillas.
Este es un árbol ornamental muy popular en los climas subtropicales y tropicales, se cultiva por sus flores perfumadas las cuales atraen a los colibríes.
Las hojas tiernas y los capullos se consumen en ensaladas.
Para los budistas es una especie sagrada, apareciendo frecuentemente en sus imágenes devotas.
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SINONIMIA:
Bauhinia chinensis Vogel
Bauhinia decora Uribe
Bauhinia variegata var. chinensis DC.
Phanera variegata (L.) Benth.
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(11 octubre de 2008)
Vicente López, provincia de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
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Leguminosae or Fabaceae s. l. (legume, pea, or bean family) » Bauhinia variegata L.
baw-HIN-ee-uh -- named for Gaspard and Jean Bauhin, physicians and botanists ... Dave's Botanary
var-ee-GAY-tuh -- variegated ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: camel's foot, mountain ebony, Napoleon's hat, orchid tree, paper mulberry, poor man's orchid, variegated bauhinia, variegated orchid tree • Assamese: কাঞ্চন kanchan • Bengali: রক্তকাঞ্চন raktakanchan • Gujarati: કાંચનાર kanchnar • Hindi: कचनाल kachnal, कचनार kachnar • Kannada: ಕಾಂಚನಾರ kanchanaara, ಕಂಚುವಾಳ kanchuvaala, ಕೆಮ್ಪು ಮಮ್ದಾರ kempu mandaara • Malayalam: കൊങ്ങു konnu, കോവിദാരം kovidaram, മന്ദാരം mandaram, ഉങ്ങു unnu • Manipuri: চিঙথ্ৰাও chingthrao • Marathi: कांचन kanchan, कांचनार kanchnar, कोविदार kovidar, रक्तकांचन raktakanchan • Mizo: vau-be • Nepali: कोइरालो koiralo • Oriya: ୟୁଗପତ୍ର jugapatra, କରକ karaka, କୋବିଦାର kobidara, ରକ୍ତକଞ୍ଚନ raktakanchana, ଶାତ କୁମ୍ଭ sata kumbha, ସ୍ବଳ୍ପ କେଶରୀ swalpa kesari, ତାମ୍ର ପୁଷ୍ପ tamra pushpa • Pali: कोविळार kovilara • Punjabi: ਕਚਨਾਲ kachnal, ਕਚਨਾਰ kachnar • Sanskrit: काञ्चनार kanchanara • Tamil: செம்மந்தாரை cem-mantarai, சிவப்புமந்தாரை civappu-mantarai, மலையாத்தி malai-y-atti, பெரியவாத்தி periya-v-atti, பெருமந்தாரை peru-mantarai, வரையாத்தி varai-y-atti, வடராசி vataraci • Telugu: కాంచనము kanchanamu • Urdu: کچنار kachnar
Distribution: s China, Bhutan, India, Indo-China; widely naturalized; also cultivated; exact native range obscure
References: Flowers of India • Wikipedia • PIER species info • NPGS / GRIN
Purwodadi Botanic Garden
Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia.
(Kebun Raya Purwodadi)
Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel. Ebenaceae. CN: [Malay and regional vernacular names - Komoi, Kayu arang (generic to most Ebenaceae), Culiket, Kreco], Pei shih (Chinese), Gaub tree, Malabar ebony, Black-and-white ebony, Pale moon ebony, Indian persimmon, Mountain ebony. Native to India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malesia (Indonesia - Sulawesi, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra; Peninsular Malaysia). Tree height up to ca. 37 m, 2 m dbh; straight bole; wood hard and dense, bark is black, smooth, and the inner bark turns bluish on exposure to sunlight. The fruits are round, yellow when ripe. It may be somewhat often astringent, even when ripe. The fruits are used to treat diarrhea and dysentery. The medicinal properties ascribed to it by the Chinese are somewhat remarkable. It is said to break fever, to be an antidote for snake poisoning, and to be demulcent. An extract of the fruit has been used as a vaginal injection in gonorrhea. Unripe leaves and fruits were traditionally used to dye cloth black, curing nets and leather. A dark oil prepared from the fruit makes an excellent varnish for paper umbrellas and fans. In Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, the juice of the fruit is used to heal sores and wounds. The medicinal properties are most likely owed to tannins.
Synonym(s):
Diospyros biflora Blanco
Diospyros citrifolia Wall. ex A.DC.
Diospyros embryopteris Pers. [Illegitimate]
Diospyros glutinifera (Roxb.) Wall.
Diospyros glutinosa J.König ex Roxb.
Diospyros malabarica var. siamensis (Hochr.) Phengklai
Diospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gürke
Diospyros peregrina f. javanica Kosterm.
Diospyros siamensis Hochr.
Embryopteris gelatinifera G.Don
Embryopteris glutinifera Roxb.
Embryopteris glutinifolia Link
Embryopteris peregrina Gaertn. .
Ref. and suggested reading:
FRIM Flora Database
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2770098
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14299
Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific, Christophe Wiart
(pt) Encontrei esta Pata de vaca (Bauhinea variegata) por acaso, e me chamou muito a atenção pela sua linda flor branca solitária.
(en) I found this Orchid tree (aka Mountain-ebony, Bauhinea variegata) by chance, but it has called my attention with its pretty white and lonely flower.
picture by eduardo deboni
Purwodadi Botanic Garden
Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia.
(Kebun Raya Purwodadi)
Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel. Ebenaceae. CN: [Malay and regional vernacular names - Komoi, Kayu arang (generic to most Ebenaceae), Culiket, Kreco], Pei shih (Chinese), Gaub tree, Malabar ebony, Black-and-white ebony, Pale moon ebony, Indian persimmon, Mountain ebony. Native to India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malesia (Indonesia - Sulawesi, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra; Peninsular Malaysia). Tree height up to ca. 37 m, 2 m dbh; straight bole; wood hard and dense, bark is black, smooth, and the inner bark turns bluish on exposure to sunlight. The fruits are round, yellow when ripe. It may be somewhat often astringent, even when ripe. The fruits are used to treat diarrhea and dysentery. The medicinal properties ascribed to it by the Chinese are somewhat remarkable. It is said to break fever, to be an antidote for snake poisoning, and to be demulcent. An extract of the fruit has been used as a vaginal injection in gonorrhea. Unripe leaves and fruits were traditionally used to dye cloth black, curing nets and leather. A dark oil prepared from the fruit makes an excellent varnish for paper umbrellas and fans. In Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, the juice of the fruit is used to heal sores and wounds. The medicinal properties are most likely owed to tannins.
Synonym(s):
Diospyros biflora Blanco
Diospyros citrifolia Wall. ex A.DC.
Diospyros embryopteris Pers. [Illegitimate]
Diospyros glutinifera (Roxb.) Wall.
Diospyros glutinosa J.König ex Roxb.
Diospyros malabarica var. siamensis (Hochr.) Phengklai
Diospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gürke
Diospyros peregrina f. javanica Kosterm.
Diospyros siamensis Hochr.
Embryopteris gelatinifera G.Don
Embryopteris glutinifera Roxb.
Embryopteris glutinifolia Link
Embryopteris peregrina Gaertn. .
Ref. and suggested reading:
FRIM Flora Database
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2770098
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14299
Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific, Christophe Wiart
Purwodadi Botanic Garden
Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia.
(Kebun Raya Purwodadi)
Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel. Ebenaceae. CN: [Malay and regional vernacular names - Komoi, Kayu arang (generic to most Ebenaceae), Culiket, Kreco], Pei shih (Chinese), Gaub tree, Malabar ebony, Black-and-white ebony, Pale moon ebony, Indian persimmon, Mountain ebony. Native to India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malesia (Indonesia - Sulawesi, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra; Peninsular Malaysia). Tree height up to ca. 37 m, 2 m dbh; straight bole; wood hard and dense, bark is black, smooth, and the inner bark turns bluish on exposure to sunlight. The fruits are round, yellow when ripe. It may be somewhat often astringent, even when ripe. The fruits are used to treat diarrhea and dysentery. The medicinal properties ascribed to it by the Chinese are somewhat remarkable. It is said to break fever, to be an antidote for snake poisoning, and to be demulcent. An extract of the fruit has been used as a vaginal injection in gonorrhea. Unripe leaves and fruits were traditionally used to dye cloth black, curing nets and leather. A dark oil prepared from the fruit makes an excellent varnish for paper umbrellas and fans. In Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, the juice of the fruit is used to heal sores and wounds. The medicinal properties are most likely owed to tannins.
Synonym(s):
Diospyros biflora Blanco
Diospyros citrifolia Wall. ex A.DC.
Diospyros embryopteris Pers. [Illegitimate]
Diospyros glutinifera (Roxb.) Wall.
Diospyros glutinosa J.König ex Roxb.
Diospyros malabarica var. siamensis (Hochr.) Phengklai
Diospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gürke
Diospyros peregrina f. javanica Kosterm.
Diospyros siamensis Hochr.
Embryopteris gelatinifera G.Don
Embryopteris glutinifera Roxb.
Embryopteris glutinifolia Link
Embryopteris peregrina Gaertn. .
Ref. and suggested reading:
FRIM Flora Database
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2770098
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14299
Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific, Christophe Wiart
I'm highly allergic to Bees. And equally fascinated too!
Tribute to Frederick Douglass
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG9877CqppA
Frederick Douglass
When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful
and terrible thing, needful to man as air,
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,
when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,
reflex action; when it is finally won; when it is more
than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians:
this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered. Oh, not with statues’ rhetoric,
not with legends and poems and wreaths of bronze alone,
but with the lives grown out of his life, the lives
fleshing his dream of the beautiful, needful thing.
Purwodadi Botanic Garden
Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia.
(Kebun Raya Purwodadi)
Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel. Ebenaceae. CN: [Malay and regional vernacular names - Komoi, Kayu arang (generic to most Ebenaceae), Culiket, Kreco], Pei shih (Chinese), Gaub tree, Malabar ebony, Black-and-white ebony, Pale moon ebony, Indian persimmon, Mountain ebony. Native to India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malesia (Indonesia - Sulawesi, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra; Peninsular Malaysia). Tree height up to ca. 37 m, 2 m dbh; straight bole; wood hard and dense, bark is black, smooth, and the inner bark turns bluish on exposure to sunlight. The fruits are round, yellow when ripe. It may be somewhat often astringent, even when ripe. The fruits are used to treat diarrhea and dysentery. The medicinal properties ascribed to it by the Chinese are somewhat remarkable. It is said to break fever, to be an antidote for snake poisoning, and to be demulcent. An extract of the fruit has been used as a vaginal injection in gonorrhea. Unripe leaves and fruits were traditionally used to dye cloth black, curing nets and leather. A dark oil prepared from the fruit makes an excellent varnish for paper umbrellas and fans. In Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, the juice of the fruit is used to heal sores and wounds. The medicinal properties are most likely owed to tannins.
Synonym(s):
Diospyros biflora Blanco
Diospyros citrifolia Wall. ex A.DC.
Diospyros embryopteris Pers. [Illegitimate]
Diospyros glutinifera (Roxb.) Wall.
Diospyros glutinosa J.König ex Roxb.
Diospyros malabarica var. siamensis (Hochr.) Phengklai
Diospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gürke
Diospyros peregrina f. javanica Kosterm.
Diospyros siamensis Hochr.
Embryopteris gelatinifera G.Don
Embryopteris glutinifera Roxb.
Embryopteris glutinifolia Link
Embryopteris peregrina Gaertn. .
Ref. and suggested reading:
FRIM Flora Database
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2770098
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14299
Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific, Christophe Wiart
Camel's Foot Tree; Fabaceae.
If you're using any of my pics, just drop me a message here on Flickr or my email. Thanks!
Camel's Foot Tree; Fabaceae.
If you're using any of my pics, just drop me a message here on Flickr or my email. Thanks!
Camel's Foot Tree; Fabaceae.
If you're using any of my pics, just drop me a message here on Flickr or my email. Thanks!