Aesculus indica - Indian horse chestnut

Pangara, Aesculus indica

Pangara is a temperate deciduous tree in the soapnut family, native to the western Himalayan region. They grow at altitudes from 1800 - 3000 m.

Parts Used

Seeds

Chemical Composition

The leaves contain aescin, quercetin and beta-sitosterol. Stems also contain rutin, astragalin, aesculin. Seeds contain aescin, aesculuside A and B, also aliphatic esters.

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada
Hindi	akhnor, bankhor, goon, gun, khanir, khanoor, khanor, pangar, pangara
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi	NA
Gujarathi	NA
Punjabi	NA
Kashmiri	NA
Sanskrit
English	Indian Horse Chestnut

Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Habit

Tree

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature
Digitate	Opposite	The leaves are large, opposite, digitate, glossy, laceolate ( Boat shaped),margin entire and venation pinnate, it forms a umbel shaped at the branch apex

Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
bisexual	terminal panicle	white		the flowers are found in a long stack about 40 cm long and bearing about 300 flowers

Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information
Fleshy capsules			Large brown seeds		{{{6}}}

Mode of Propagation

Seeds

Commonly seen growing in areas

Temperate forest.

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