Sandoricum indicum

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Santol is a large, ornamental evergreen tree with a dense, narrowly oval crown; it usually grows around 25 metres tall but with some specimens up to 50 metres. The bole, which is sometimes straight but often crooked or fluted, is branchless for up to 18 metres; has a diameter up to 100 cm; and buttresses up to 3 metres high.

Uses

Diarrhoea, Fever, Ringworms, Dysentery.

Parts Used

Fruit.

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit
English

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

Evergreen Tree

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature

Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
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Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information

Other features

Mode of Propagation

Seeds, Air layering, Budding.

How to plant/cultivate

Santol is a plant of the hot, wet tropical lowlands,and cannot be grown above 1,000 metres in Java. It flourishes in dry as well as moist areas of the Philippine lowlands.

Commonly seen growing in areas

Secondary rain forest, Primary rain forest, River banks, Wet tropical lowland.

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