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Hog Plum

Submitted by admin on 8 September 2025
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Scientific name
Spondias pinnata
English Name
Hog Plum
Malayalam name
അമ്പഴം, കാട്ടമ്പഴം
Common name
Indian Hog Plum

Description

  1. Habit : Tree
  2. Habitat : Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, also in the plains
  3. Leaves : imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the end of branches, estipulate
  4. Flowers : polygamous, yellowish-white, subsessile, in terminal spreading panicles
  5. Fruits : a fleshy drupe, yellow, endocarp woody surround by longitudinal interwoven fibers
How to use
  • Bark decotion is used in diarrhea and vomiting.
  • The juice of both fruits and leaves are used to treat earache, dysentery, diarrhea and dyspepsia
Uses

To treat earache, dysentery, diarrhea and dyspepsia

Parts used
Bark, leaves and fruit
Conservation

Propagation & Cultivation

The Indian hog plum can easily be cultivated by seeds