Family: Fabaceae
Synonym: Jonesia asoca Roxb.
Vernacular name: Ashokam. Hemapushpam
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Semi evergreen forests, cultivated
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh. Introduced in cultivation in Malaysia
Flowering & Fruiting: March-October
Key identification features: Habit- Small trees. Trunk often tubercled; bark lenticellate, dark, shallowly fissured; blaze purplish. Leaves compound, paripinnate, alternate, distichous; stipules caducous; flowers orange, sometimes white; fragrant. Fruit and Seed Pod, flat, oblong, apiculate; seeds obovate-orbiculate.
Uses: Although it is considered highly medicinal Karbis use to chew the fruit as substitute for arecanut. Usually planted for ornamental purposes.
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