Chilkadadu PRODUCT NAME
Saccopetalum tomentosum (Roxb.) Hook. f. & Thomas syn Millusa tomentosa (Roxb.) Sinclairsyn Uvaria tomentosa Roxb. SCIENTIFIC NAME
| Common Name: | Chilkadadu |
| Local Name: | Wayi (Durva); Ganpanas (Halbi); Kari/Karua (Hindi); Periuvay (Tamil); Chikadau (Telugu). |
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| Product Description: | A medium sized tree with brown bark, with fine cracks in young trees, fluted in old; tomentose branches and shoots; blaze yellowish. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, 8-18.5 x 3.8-5.5cm, base obtuse, apex acute or shortly acuminate, aromatic, glabrous shining above, fine hairs on the nervous beneath; petiole 0.7cm long; secondary nerves 6-11, looping some distance from the margin, marginal nerve distinct. Flowers solitary dak purple, on slender pedicels from previous year's shoots. Fruit an umbel of roundish black fleshy carpels. |
| NTFP Classification: | Food and food ingredients (plant-derived), Feed, fodder and fuelwood, Other commercial and industrial uses |
DISTRIBUTION
| Countries Found: | India |
| Description: | Common in good soil |
USES AND PARTS USED
| Parts Used: | fruits leaves, leaflets trunk |
| Uses: | Fruit is edible Leaves used for fodder Wood is used to fashion agricultural implements and in constructions |
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| Partners: | IUCN |
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