Common name:
English:
Governor's Plum,
Batoka Plum,
Flacourtia,
Indian plum,
Madagascar plum,
Mauritius plum
Malayalam: Karimulli
Sanskrit: Aghori
Hindi: Bilangada
Botanical name: Flacourtia
indica
Family: Flacourtiaceae
Small tree or shrub , the trunk
often armed. Bark is usually pale, grey, powdery, may become
brown to dark grey and flaking, revealing pale orange patches.
Leaves: Leaves are variable in
seize, round to oval in shape.
Flowers: Almost clustered in
short racemes.
Medicinal properties:
Bark-oil useful in gout and
rheumatism.
Leaves and root infusion given in
snake bite.
Distribution:
Commenly found in barren lands.
It is planted as live fence.
