Paradise Tree
Scientific name
Simarouba glauca
English Name
Paradise Tree
Malayalam name
ലക്ഷ്മിതരു
Common name
Paradise Tree
Description
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : warm,humid and in tropical regions
- Leaves : pinnately compound
- Flowers : in terminal panicle, small, yellow.
- Fruit : yellow
How to use
- Dysentery : One cup of juice obtained from squeezed young leaves is taken twice daily for 7 days.
- To enhance digestion : 1 teaspoonful of dried and powdered seed is taken to ensure better digestion.
Uses
Anti-cancerous, Anti-dysenteric
Parts used
Bark, leaves, seed and fruit
Conservation
Propagation & Cultivation
It can be propagated from seeds, grafting and tissue culture technology. Fruits are collected in the month of April/May, when they are ripe and then dried in sun for about a week.Skin is seperated and seeds are grown in plastic bags to produce saplings.Sapling 2 to 3 months old can be transplanted in plantation.