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Dillenia indica - Bhavya

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Bhavya, Dillenia indica

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

Parts Used

Chemical Composition

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada bettakanagalu, kal tega, naaythaeku
Hindi chalta, girnar
Malayalam punna, syalita, valappunna, valapunna, vazchapunnai
Tamil uvatteku, uvav, kattarali, kurukati
Telugu kalinga, muchiru, peda kalinga, revadi chettu, uppu ponna, uva
Marathi NA
Gujarathi NA
Punjabi NA
Kashmiri NA
Sanskrit bhavya, bhavyam, ruvya, picchila beeja
English Elephant apple

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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

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature
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.

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Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
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

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information
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. {{{6}}}

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

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