Family: Bignoniaceae
Vernacular name: Phaauntanmaram, Sphaathhoodiya
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Planted as an avenue tree, also as shade tree in coffee plantations
Distribution: India: Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh; Tropical Africa
Flowering and Fruiting: July-March
Key identification features: These evergreen or semi-deciduous trees have stout, tapering trunks and oval crowns. Their leaves are composed of deeply veined oval leaflets, and they produce big crinkled red-orange tuliplike flowers followed by green-brown fingerlike pods. Each of these pods contains about 500 tissue papery seeds.
Uses: Extracts of the bark, leaves and flowers are used to treat malaria, HIV, diabetes mellitus, oedema, dysentery, constipation, gastrointestinal disorders, ulcers, skin diseases
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