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Buchanania cochinchinensis - Priyala

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Priyala, Buchanania cochinchinensis

Priyala, is a moderate sized tree of the dry forests of peninsular India, whose fruits and kernels are much valued as food. The fruits have a sweet and sour taste and the kernels, called chironji have a rich almond like flavour, which are also used in making sweets.

Uses

Parts Used

Chemical Composition

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada murkalu, kolemaavu
Hindi char, charoli, chironji,
Malayalam cheru, kalamavu, moongapezhu, mungaperlu, munnalperu
Tamil cara paruppu, kattu-ma, saraiparuppu
Telugu chaara, charumaamidi, chinna morli, sarapappu
Marathi NA
Gujarathi NA
Punjabi NA
Kashmiri NA
Sanskrit kharaskandha, rajadana, bahulavalkala, priyala, chara
English Cudappah almond

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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)

Guna

Snigdha (Oily), Guru (Heavy)

Veerya

Sheeta (cold)

Vipaka

Karma

Pitta, vata

Prabhava

Habit

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature
Simple alternate petiole 12-22 mm, stout, glabrous; lamina 10-23.5 x 5-12 cm, broadly oblong, base round or acute, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire, glabrous above and densely tomentose beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-20 pairs, pinnate, prominent, pubescent, secondary laterals prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent.

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Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
Bisexual Terminal and axillary panicles Greenish white 5 calyx lobes 5, persistent; petals 5, oblong, reflexed, pilose; stamens 10, inserted at the base of fleshy disc; filaments free, glabrous; disc cupular, 5 lobed, pilose; carpels 5-6, free, superior, tomentose, 4 reduced to thread like processes, one fertile, ovule one, pendulous; style lateral; stigma truncate.

Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information
A drupe 10-13 x 8 mm oblong, laterally compressed, black; stone hard, 2 valved; seed one. {{{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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