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Amoora cucullata

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Aglaia cucullata is a tree with a broad, rounded crown of arching branches. it usually grows up to 15 metres tall.

Uses

Parts Used

Chemical Composition

Bioassay-guided fractionation of mangrove, Amoora cucullata, collected from Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh, led to the isolation of four new compounds (1–4), along with seven known compounds.[1]

Common names

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 Paripinnate; petiolules ca. 1.25 cm long; lamina ca. 7-20 x 4-6.5 cm, ovate or oblong elliptic, oblique at base, obtuse at apex, entire, glabrous, subcoriaceous; secondary nerves 16 pairs.

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Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
Polygamous Panicles Yellow 6 Inflorescence densely lepidote; male panicles drooping, almost as long as leaves, with many diverging branches; female racemes much shorter, few-flowered; Flowers bracteate, ca. 3-4 mm long, yellow; female and bisexual flowers larger than male flowers; calyx 3-lobed; petals 3; staminal tube turbinate, scarcely shorter than petals; anthers 6, sessile, included; ovary 3-locular; locules 2-ovuled; style absent; stigma 3-lobed, large. Pistillode similar but slender and stipitate

Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information
Capsule 6 cm across Pyriform-globose, obtusely 3-lobed, 3-valved Seeds 3, orange, rounded with fleshy aril.

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

How to plant/cultivate

The pouch at the base of the terminal leaflet is sometimes occupied by ants.[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

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References

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