Hog Plum
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Scientific name
Spondias pinnata
English Name
Hog Plum
Malayalam name
അമ്പഴം, കാട്ടമ്പഴം
Common name
Indian Hog Plum
Description
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, also in the plains
- Leaves : imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the end of branches, estipulate
- Flowers : polygamous, yellowish-white, subsessile, in terminal spreading panicles
- 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
