Plumeria rubra L.
ഈഴച്ചെമ്പകം
| Family: | APOCYNACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Pagoda Tree | ||||
| Synonym: | Plumeria jamesonii Hook | ||||
| Common Name: | Temple tree | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | November - April | ||||
| Distribution: | Native of Tropical America | ||||
| Habitat: | Cultivated as ornamental plants | ||||
| Uses: | Ornamental. It has anti-fertility, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, hepatoprotective and antimicrobial activities. It has been used in the folk medicine systems of civilizations for the treatment however as abortifacient, drastic, purgative, blennorrhagia, used in toothache and for carious teeth. | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Plumeria rubraare deciduous trees. Leaves simple, alternate spiral, clustered; latex milky; lamina obovate-spathulate, apex acuminate or acute, margin entire. Flowers bisexual, in terminal corymbose stout cymes; calyx cupular; lobes 5; corolla, pink or cream with yellow centre; lobes 5, obovate; stamens 5, attached at the base of the tube, included; ovary globose; ovules many; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit an aggregate of 2 follicle; seeds winged. | ||||