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PLANT OF THE WEEK
Oroxylum indicum (L.) Kurz. – Midnight horror tree
Botanical Name
Oroxylom indicum (L.) Kurz.
Synonyms
Bignonia indica L. Calosanthes indica (L.) Blume.
Bignonia pentandra Laur.
Family
Bignoniaceae
Conservation Status
Endangered
Local Name
English : Midnight horror tree
Hindi : Sagru
Oriya : Phanaphana
Tamil : Konda
Bengali : Sona
Habitat
It is found occasional in mixed deciduous
forests, especially in hills.
Distribution
India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Indonesia,
Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand,
Vietnam, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi,
Guizhou, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan,
Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia,
Bhutan, China.
Flowering time: July-August
Fruiting time: December-March
Oroxylum indicum
~ A night bloomer ~
Description
Habit :- Oroxylum indicum is a small branched tree with 5-10 m high, laxly branched or unbranched.
Leaf :- Leaves opposite, 2-4 pinnately compound. Leaflets triangular-ovate, glabrous, becoming after drying,
base sub rounded, oblique, margin entire.
Flower :- Inflorescence racemose, terminal, calyx large, purple,
broadly campanulate, fleshy. Corolla purple-red, campanulate, limb
slightly bilabiate, tomentose basally, stamen 5, sub equal, style
filiform, stigma ligulate, compressed.
Fruit :- Capsule woody, valves with midrib, margin convex. Seed
rounded, winged including papery.
Source
Mao, A.A.; Oroxylum
indicum Vent.-A potential
anticancer Medicinal plant.
Saxena, H.O. & Brahmam,
M. (1994). The Flora of
Orissa, Vol.II,
pp: 1300-1301.
Sharma P.C.; Yelne M.B.;
Dennis T.J.(2005 ).Database
on Medicinal Plants used in
Ayurveda, Vol.II
pp: 490-499.
Sharma R. (2003).
Medicinal plants of India-
An encyclopedia,
pp 179-180.
Swain B.K & Das S.K.
(2007) Visual guide to wild
medicinal plants of Orissa,
pp 353.
www.en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/ oroxylum_indicum
www.envis.frlht.org.
8th week
12-1-2015
Uses
The bark, leaves, root, root bark, fruits, leaves and seeds are used to treat snake bite.
Bark :- The decoction of the bark is taken for curing gastric ulcer and a paste made of the
bark applied to cure mouth cancer, scabies and other skin diseases. Juice of the bark is used
as a tonic and astringent useful in diarrhea, diaphoretic, rheumatism and dysentery.
Root :- It is used to cure inflammations, leprosy, dropsy, sprains, neuralgia, hiccough,
cough, asthma, bronchitis, anorexia, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery.
Root Bark :- It is used as astringent, bitter tonic, stomachic, anodyne and sudorific and also
useful in diarrhea, dysentery and ottorrhoea.
Leaf :- Paste of leaves are used externally to treat an enlarged spleen, headache and
ulcer, also used as emollient & anodyne.
Fruit :- Tender fruits are prescribed for expectorant, carminative and stomachic and
also useful in cough, bronchitis, dyspepsia, flatulence, colic and leucoderma.
The mature fruits are to cure acrid, sweet, anthelmintic and stomachic and also useful
in sore throat, cardiac disorders, worm infestations, gastric disorders, bronchitis.
Seed :- The seed are used as purgative.
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