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Dalbergia latifolia

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Krishna-simsapa, Dalbergia latifolia

Dalbergia latifolia can be evergreen or deciduous plant. A medium to large-sized tree with a dome shaped crown of lush green foliage. It can grow up to 40 metres tall with a clear bole that can be more than 20 metres tall and 50cm in diameter. The species is grown commercially for its high-value timber in several countries, and is also planted as a shade tree.

Uses

Parts Used

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Chemical Composition

[1]

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada beete, beete mara
Hindi kala-shisham
Malayalam beety, veetti
Tamil itti, thodagathi
Telugu chittegi, nalla yarugudu chettu
Marathi kalarukh, sheesham
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit simsapa, krishna-sinsapa
English indian rosewood

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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

Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Habit

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature
Pinnate Alternate rachis 7.5-20.5 cm, slender, pulvinate, glabrous; leaflets 3-9, alternate, exstipe llate; petiolule upto 10 mm, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 2.5-10 x 2.5-10 cm, orbicular, base acute or very rarely truncate, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, ascending, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint.

[3]

Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
Bisexual Short corymbose panicles Pale yellow 9 Flowers bisexual, 5-6 mm long, white, in short corymbose panicles from the axils of fallen leaves of previous years shoot; bracteoles small, deciduous; calyx tube campanulate; lobes 5, subequal, upper 2 connate, lateral obtuse, lower acute; petals 5, standard petal obovate, cuneate at base, reflexed, wings 6 x 2.5 mm, clawed, base auricled, keel 6 mm long, hastate, united, clawed; stamens 9, monadelphous; staminal tube 4 mm, split open one side; ovary stipitate, inferior, 5-7 mm, glabrous, 1-celled, ovules 1-few; style slender, incurved, glabrous; stigma capitate.

Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information
A pod 5-7.5 x 1.5-1.8 cm oblong-lanceolate, tip obtuse, distinctly marked in the place of seeds, but not wrinkled, indehiscent; seeds 1-4, reniform, brown.

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

How to plant/cultivate

Germination takes 7 to 25 days and the germination varies from 45 to 80% for fresh seeds. [4]

Commonly seen growing in areas

Photo Gallery

  • Pods

  • Flowers

  • Leaves, Bogor
  • At Bogor

  • Leaves

References

External Links

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