Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS118 : Carissa carandas

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Synonym : Arduina carandae Baill.; Arduina carandas (L.) Baill.; Carissa salicina Lam.; Echites spinosus Burm.f.; Jasminonerium carandas (L.) Kuntze; Jasminonerium salicinum (Lam.) Kuntze;

Plant Common Name : Karanda • Hindi: Karonda • Malayalam: Karakka • Telugu: Peddakalavi • Marathi: karvand • Tamil: Kalakkai

Plant Family : APOCYNACEAE

Description : Armed shrubs, latex milky, dichotomously branched, spines forked at apex, 4.5 cm. Leaves 6 x 3.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex obtuse or emarginate, subcoriaceous; petiole to 0.5 cm. Cymes axillary and terminal, corymbose, puberulus; flowers white; calyx 5-lobed, 2.5 mm ,ovate, , aristate; corolla hypocrateriform, tube 2 cm, pubescent, twisted, 7 x 3 mm, ovate, pubescent; stamens 2.5 mm, obtuse, mucronate, sessile; ovary 1 mm, stigma fusiform, twisted. Berry 2.5 cm across, black when ripe.

Plant Location in Melghat :

Medicinal Use / Activity : The fruits are astringent, antiscorbutic and also used as a remedy for biliousness. A leaf decoction is used against fever, Diarrhea, and earache. The roots serve as a stomachic, vermifuge and remedy for itches.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Ursolic acid; Sasanquol; palmitic acid; oleic acid; Odoroside H; Octadecanoate; MYRCENE; malonic acid; GERANYL ACETATE; Digitalose; (-)-camphene;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (6):

Ursolic Acid;

Geranyl acetate;

Camphene;

Myrcene;

Palmitic acid;

Odoroside H;

Plant's Current Status :

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book

Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :

~ Omesh Bajpai, Jitendra Pandey and Lal Babu Chaudhary; "Ethnomedicinal Uses of Tree Species by Tharu Tribes in the Himalayan Terai Region of India"; Research Journal of Medicinal Plant (2016); 10(1): 19-41 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Asteridae
Order : Gentianales
Family : Apocynaceae - Dogbane family
Genus : Carissa L. - carissa
Species : Carissa carandas L. - karanda

Carissa carandas L. - karanda
Carissa carandas L. - karanda
Carissa carandas L. - karanda
Carissa carandas L. - karanda
Carissa carandas L. - karanda