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[[Borassus flabellifer fruit on the tree.JPG|thumb|right|''Talah'', ''Borassus flabellifer'']]
'''Talah''' is a tall palm tree with fan shaped leaves found abundantly all along the Eastern Coast of India. The fruits are valued for their sweet jelly like pulp and inflorescence stalks which yield delicious neera.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Liver diseases}}, {{Uses|Spleen diseases}}, {{Uses|Inflammation}}, {{Uses|General debility}}, {{Uses|Acidity}}, {{Uses|Diarrhea}}, {{Uses|Cough and cold}}
<ref name="Uses"/>
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Flower}}, {{Parts Used|Roots}}, {{Parts Used|Fruits}}
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=kari thaale, thaatiningu, |ml=ampana, carim-pana, carimpana, eta|sa=taladrumah, talah, trinaraja|ta=nonkupanai, nungu, panaimaram|te=karatalamu, karathaalamu, naamathaadu, tatichettu|hi=tad|en=Palmyrah palm}}
<ref name="Common names"/>
==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
Madhura (Sweet)
===Guna===
Guru (Heavy), Snigdha (Slimy)
===Veerya===
Sheeta (Cold)
===Vipaka===
Madhura (Sweet)
===Karma===
Vata, Pitta
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|Palmate|Leaves plicately multifid; leaflets 60-80, induplicate, apex acuminate; petiole stout, spinous, base broad, split. Spadices interfoliar, large, dioecious, branched; peduncle sheathed with open spathes. }}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual||||Male flowers small, clustered; bracts scaly, secund, overlapping. Sepals 3, oblong, to 3 mm. Petals 3, obovate-spathulate, to 2 mm. Stamens 6; anthers to 1 mm; pistillodes small, bristly. Female flowers large, globose. Perianth fleshy, accrescent. Sepals reniform, imbricate. Petals smaller, convolute. Ovary globose, entire or 3-or-1-cleft, 3-or 4-celled; ovules basal; stigmas 3, sessile, recurved; staminodes 6-9.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Drupe|13 cm across|Fruits globose, black when ripe with 1-3 compressed pyrenes.||}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|Coastal area}}.
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Borassus flabellifer.jpg
File:Tree I IMG 1497.jpg
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="Uses">[https://herbs.indianmedicinalplants.info/index.php/sanskrit-names-of-plants/51-2012-03-14-06-49-40/740--borassus-flabellifer "Uses"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER 2.0, N.SASIDHARAN "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Common names"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* [https://innovareacademics.in/journals/index.php/ijcpr/article/download/12102/4414/]
* [https://www.entranceindia.com/medicinal-plants-herbs-flowers/tala-inflorescence-in-ayurveda-botanical-name-borassus-flabellifer-linn/]
* [http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Borassus+flabellifer]
*http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Borassus_flabellifer
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Plants of western ghats]][[Category:Tree]]
'''Talah''' is a tall palm tree with fan shaped leaves found abundantly all along the Eastern Coast of India. The fruits are valued for their sweet jelly like pulp and inflorescence stalks which yield delicious neera.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Liver diseases}}, {{Uses|Spleen diseases}}, {{Uses|Inflammation}}, {{Uses|General debility}}, {{Uses|Acidity}}, {{Uses|Diarrhea}}, {{Uses|Cough and cold}}
<ref name="Uses"/>
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Flower}}, {{Parts Used|Roots}}, {{Parts Used|Fruits}}
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=kari thaale, thaatiningu, |ml=ampana, carim-pana, carimpana, eta|sa=taladrumah, talah, trinaraja|ta=nonkupanai, nungu, panaimaram|te=karatalamu, karathaalamu, naamathaadu, tatichettu|hi=tad|en=Palmyrah palm}}
<ref name="Common names"/>
==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
Madhura (Sweet)
===Guna===
Guru (Heavy), Snigdha (Slimy)
===Veerya===
Sheeta (Cold)
===Vipaka===
Madhura (Sweet)
===Karma===
Vata, Pitta
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|Palmate|Leaves plicately multifid; leaflets 60-80, induplicate, apex acuminate; petiole stout, spinous, base broad, split. Spadices interfoliar, large, dioecious, branched; peduncle sheathed with open spathes. }}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual||||Male flowers small, clustered; bracts scaly, secund, overlapping. Sepals 3, oblong, to 3 mm. Petals 3, obovate-spathulate, to 2 mm. Stamens 6; anthers to 1 mm; pistillodes small, bristly. Female flowers large, globose. Perianth fleshy, accrescent. Sepals reniform, imbricate. Petals smaller, convolute. Ovary globose, entire or 3-or-1-cleft, 3-or 4-celled; ovules basal; stigmas 3, sessile, recurved; staminodes 6-9.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Drupe|13 cm across|Fruits globose, black when ripe with 1-3 compressed pyrenes.||}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|Coastal area}}.
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Borassus flabellifer.jpg
File:Tree I IMG 1497.jpg
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="Uses">[https://herbs.indianmedicinalplants.info/index.php/sanskrit-names-of-plants/51-2012-03-14-06-49-40/740--borassus-flabellifer "Uses"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER 2.0, N.SASIDHARAN "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Common names"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* [https://innovareacademics.in/journals/index.php/ijcpr/article/download/12102/4414/]
* [https://www.entranceindia.com/medicinal-plants-herbs-flowers/tala-inflorescence-in-ayurveda-botanical-name-borassus-flabellifer-linn/]
* [http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Borassus+flabellifer]
*http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Borassus_flabellifer
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Plants of western ghats]][[Category:Tree]]
