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'''Bhavya''' , Elephant apple is a very ornamental evergreen tree with a rounded crown and large corrugated leaves that can grow up to 30 metres tall, though is usually smaller. The bole can be 120cm in diameter, often branching from low down. The plant provides an edible fruit, polish, soap and medicines for the local people.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Cough}}, {{Uses|Pulp used as shampoo}}, {{Uses|Bad breath}}, {{Uses|Improves digestion}}, {{Uses|Goo for scalp}}
<ref name="Uses"/>
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Fruits}}
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=bettakanagalu, kal tega, naaythaeku|ml=punna, syalita, valappunna, valapunna, vazchapunnai|sa=bhavya, bhavyam, ruvya, picchila beeja|ta=uvatteku, uvav, kattarali, kurukati|te=kalinga, muchiru, peda kalinga, revadi chettu, uppu ponna, uva|hi=chalta, girnar|en=Elephant apple}}
<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), Amla (Sour), Kashaya (Astringent)
===Guna===
Guru(Heavy), Picchila (Slimy)
===Veerya===
Sheeta (cold)
===Vipaka===
Madhura (Sweet)
===Karma===
Vata
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|alternate|Petiole 15-75 mm long, stout, sheathing, winged, tomentose, grooved above; lamina 18.5-30 × 5-10 cm, elliptic, oblanceolate, elliptic-oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, base cuneate, acute or attenuate, apex acute or acuminate, margin serrate to dentate, glabrous above, strigose or pubescent beneath; lateral nerves many, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|Terminal|White||12-15 cm across, solitary, white, terminal; pedicel 4-8 cm long, silky hairy; bracts to 5 mm long, solitary, median on pedicels, lanceolate; sepals 5, 4-6 × 3-5 cm, obovate, orbicular or elliptic, thick, fleshy; petals 5, 7-9 × 5-6 cm, obovate or oblong, white, veins green; stamens many, cohering slightly at base, in 2 series, outer 13-15 mm long, inner ones 20-22 mm long, inner ones arching over the short outer ones; carpels 14-20, cohering at the axis, ovules many; styles free, 18-25 mm long, flattened, oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, spreading, white. Pseudocarps yellowish-green, globular with enclosed sepals, 10-12 cm across. }}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|aggregate of berries|3.5 × 1.5 cm|Globular, covered by overlapping circular scales|seeds 5, 6×4 mm, reniform, compressed, reddish, echinate with hairy margins.|}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings}}.
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|Sub tropical area}}
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Dillenia indica (2478651756).jpg
File:Dillenia indica (4592088972).jpg
File:Dillenia indica - Elephant Apple at Kakkayam dam (8).jpg
File:Flower48.jpg
File:Elephant Apple - മലമ്പുന്ന 01.JPG
File:Makok724.jpg
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="Uses">[https://easyayurveda.com/2017/12/27/elephant-apple-dillenia-indica-bhavya/ "Uses"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[http://FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER.2, N. Sasidharan "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Vernacular names"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/indian-medicinal-plants/d/doc213964.html
* http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Dillenia+indica
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Plants of western ghats]]
[[Category:Tree]]
'''Bhavya''' , Elephant apple is a very ornamental evergreen tree with a rounded crown and large corrugated leaves that can grow up to 30 metres tall, though is usually smaller. The bole can be 120cm in diameter, often branching from low down. The plant provides an edible fruit, polish, soap and medicines for the local people.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Cough}}, {{Uses|Pulp used as shampoo}}, {{Uses|Bad breath}}, {{Uses|Improves digestion}}, {{Uses|Goo for scalp}}
<ref name="Uses"/>
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Fruits}}
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=bettakanagalu, kal tega, naaythaeku|ml=punna, syalita, valappunna, valapunna, vazchapunnai|sa=bhavya, bhavyam, ruvya, picchila beeja|ta=uvatteku, uvav, kattarali, kurukati|te=kalinga, muchiru, peda kalinga, revadi chettu, uppu ponna, uva|hi=chalta, girnar|en=Elephant apple}}
<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), Amla (Sour), Kashaya (Astringent)
===Guna===
Guru(Heavy), Picchila (Slimy)
===Veerya===
Sheeta (cold)
===Vipaka===
Madhura (Sweet)
===Karma===
Vata
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|alternate|Petiole 15-75 mm long, stout, sheathing, winged, tomentose, grooved above; lamina 18.5-30 × 5-10 cm, elliptic, oblanceolate, elliptic-oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, base cuneate, acute or attenuate, apex acute or acuminate, margin serrate to dentate, glabrous above, strigose or pubescent beneath; lateral nerves many, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|Terminal|White||12-15 cm across, solitary, white, terminal; pedicel 4-8 cm long, silky hairy; bracts to 5 mm long, solitary, median on pedicels, lanceolate; sepals 5, 4-6 × 3-5 cm, obovate, orbicular or elliptic, thick, fleshy; petals 5, 7-9 × 5-6 cm, obovate or oblong, white, veins green; stamens many, cohering slightly at base, in 2 series, outer 13-15 mm long, inner ones 20-22 mm long, inner ones arching over the short outer ones; carpels 14-20, cohering at the axis, ovules many; styles free, 18-25 mm long, flattened, oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, spreading, white. Pseudocarps yellowish-green, globular with enclosed sepals, 10-12 cm across. }}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|aggregate of berries|3.5 × 1.5 cm|Globular, covered by overlapping circular scales|seeds 5, 6×4 mm, reniform, compressed, reddish, echinate with hairy margins.|}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings}}.
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|Sub tropical area}}
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Dillenia indica (2478651756).jpg
File:Dillenia indica (4592088972).jpg
File:Dillenia indica - Elephant Apple at Kakkayam dam (8).jpg
File:Flower48.jpg
File:Elephant Apple - മലമ്പുന്ന 01.JPG
File:Makok724.jpg
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="Uses">[https://easyayurveda.com/2017/12/27/elephant-apple-dillenia-indica-bhavya/ "Uses"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[http://FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER.2, N. Sasidharan "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Vernacular names"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/indian-medicinal-plants/d/doc213964.html
* http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Dillenia+indica
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Plants of western ghats]]
[[Category:Tree]]
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