Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT024 : Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 93

Synonym : Buchanania lanzan Spreng.; Buchanania latifolia Roxb.; Lanzana solitaria Stokes (Unresolved); Lundia mangiferoides Puerari ex DC. (Unresolved); Mangifera axillaris Desr. (Unresolved); Mangifera silvestris Roxb. (Unresolved); Spondias elliptica Rottb. ex Hook.f. (Unresolved); Spondias simplicifolia Rottb. (Unresolved);

Plant Common Name : Char, Charoli, Chironji, K-Torab, Chironji Tree, almondette, calumpong nut, Cheronjee, Cuddapah almond, Hamilton mombin,

Plant Family : Anacardiaceae

Description : Chironji Tree is a medium-sized deciduous tree, growing to about 50 ft tall. It bears fruits each cotaining a single seed, which is popular as an edible nut, known as chironji. It is common in our forests mostly in eroded ravine lands. It avoids waterlogged areas, but occurs locally in clay soils. It can be identified by the dark grey crocodile bark with red blaze. A good species for afforesting bare hill slopes. It has tickly leathery leaves which are broadly oblong, with blunt tip and rounded base. Leaves have 10-20 pairs of straight, parallel veins. Pyramidal panicles of greenish while flowers appear in early spring. Fruits ripen from April to May and remain on the tree for quite a long time. Flowering: January-March.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : The roots are acrid, astringent, cooling, depurative and constipating, and are useful in treatment of Diarrhea. Leaves are used in the treatment of skin diseases. Fruits are used in treating cough and asthma. The gum from the tree is used against leprosy in traditional medicine. The roots are acrid, astringent, cooling, depurative and constipating. They are useful in the treatment of Diarrhea. The leaves are used in the treatment of skin diseases. The fruits are used in treating coughs and asthma. Treating leprosy

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: gallic acid; myricetin-3-galactoside; myricetin-3-beta-rhamnoside-3-galactoside; celidoniol; vomicine; cyclic polyol; Acyl-mono-galactosyldiacyl glycerol; acyl-atedsterylglucoside; quercetin; glucoside; myricetin 3’- rhamnoside-3-galactoside; cardanol; cardol; anacardic acid; myristic acid; palmitic acid; stearic acid; oleic acid; linoleic acid; dipalmitoolein; dioleopalmitin; triolein; palmitic acid; oleic acid;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (4):

Quercetin;

Myricetin;

Palmitic acid;

Gallic Acid;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Chironji%20Tree.html - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Buchanania+lanzan - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/264515 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805096/ - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0889157588900373

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~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

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Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Sapindales
Family : Anacardiaceae - Sumac family
Genus : Buchanania
Species : Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida

Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida
Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida
Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida
Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida
Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida
Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida
Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida
Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida
Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida
Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) Almeida