Trees In Kerala

Kerala is a small strip of land lying between Arabian Sea and Western Ghats at the south West corner of India. Kerala has a total land area of 38863 sq km which is just 1percentage of Indias total area.It has got a coast line of 580 metric linear unit. Kerala being nearer to equator line, compared to different Indian states, its a nice and equable climate through out the year. Kerala receives copious rain ,average 3000 millimeter a year. The temperature in Kerala twenty eight to thirty two c on the plains however drops to concerning twenty c within the highlands. High land enjoys a cool and reviving climate the year spherical. Kerala features a total forest cowl of eleven,125.59sq metric linear unit that is twenty eight.90 share of the full acreage of Kerala state. Forest cowl of Kerala is principally meet the Western Ghats , the border of the state. Western Ghats ,one of the eighteen spots of bio-diversity features a repository of endemic, vulnerable and rare flora and fauna. Kerala blessed forty four rivers, lakes ,back waters, ponds has plethoric water resources to counterpoint the bio-diversity of the state. Most of the rivers originate from Western Ghats square measure flowing west, to the state of Kerala.The trees of Kerala are grown in forests, villages and in cityscapes. Trees are very useful in various ways where it provides food, medicine, timber, firewood etc. Trees also have many medicinal values. Some of the main trees found in our state include the following

Teak Scientific Name : Tectona grandis Teak could be a tall evergreen tree with yellow blonde to burnt sienna wood. It attains the peak of concerning thirty meter and its fruit is drup. its massive leaf and chromatic to white flowers with whitish gray color bark. its usually straight mature with UN even texture , medium lusture and also the oily feel. The higher structure of the tree is rough and also the inner surface with hairs. The fruit is swallowed by gyre that is brownness color , ribbed and papery.Teak holds medicative price. The bark is bitter tonic for fever, head ache, abdomen downside and enhances digestion. Rose Wood Scientific Name : sissu Indian Rose Wood could be a erect deciduous tree that grows up to twenty five meter and 2-3 meter in diameter and its leaves square measure tough , concerning fifteen cm long. The flowers square measure whitish pink, crown is oval in form and brown fruit that is pod like in form, dry and exhausting. The wood color is white to pale brown and duramen is golden to dark brown.

Rose Wood oil stimulates new cell growth, regenerate tissues, and minimize lines and wrinkles and facilitate balance dry and oily skin. its been proven helpful against skin condition. Bamboo Ochalandra Travancorica reed could be a rare species of bamboo found in Kerala forests. Bamboo mats made of the reed could be a in style item. Bamboo could be a woody grass that happens naturally , everywhere the globe except Europe, could be a extremely renewable material, sturdy and comparable on sure parameters with different woods. There square measure 1600 species of Bamboo within the world across 111 genera. Indias Bamboo resources is second largest within the world with a hundred thirty species unfold across eighteen genera. White Pine Pinus Strobus The white Pine is massive, straight stemmed tree with a pointed crown that grows fifty to one hundred feet tall with needles three to five inches long, chromatic inexperienced on the side , whitish to a lower place and occurring in bundles of 5 and needles stay on the tree for 2 years. The cone is slender and step by step tapering three to 6inches long with ends of the cone scales conspicuously light-weight tan to whitish and sleek. On tiny branches and twigs, the bark is sleek. On older branches and also the trunk , it breaks into broad with lidded ridges thats dark gray. White Cedar(Akil ) The estern white cedar could be a tiny hardy slow growing tree , lives for two hundred years or additional. Cones square measure seven to twelve millimeters long and grow in clumps of five or six pairs. Its leaves square measure tiny and scaly and canopy the trees fan formed twigs and square measure in yellow in color. The bark is skinny and glossy once tree is young , however separate into flat slim strips because it become old. It grows to thirty meter and its flower is light-weight yellow.In Kerala its oil (Akilenna) is employed for solidification pain, scabies, infectious disease and poison. Jack Wood Cryplocarya glaucescens It is the common mans tree of Kerala. Leaf is approaximately10 cm long and 5cm wide. vein nerves and veins square measure visible on each facet of the leaf. Bark is brown and surface isnt sleek with several irregularities. It starts bearing fruit once 5 years. Jackfruit weighs 15-35 kilogram. its a fashionable fruit with supermolecule ,phosphorous, calcium, saccharide and axerophthol. Its wood is employed creating piece of furniture and building house.

Ranphannas (Anjili ) Scientific Name : magnoliopsid genus Hirsutus It is an enormous tree, grows 30-40 meter high and 200-250 cm in radius. Leaves square measure fifteen cm long and eight cm wide and stems have hair. The tree has stain. It blossoms in January to March. Its fruit is like Jackfruit however tiny in size ,weighs 400-800 grams. Wood is employed for boat building and for piece of furniture. Peepal( Arayal ) Ficus religiosa Its a tree adored in Bharat. The origin of peepal tree may be derived back to the time of Indus vale civilization (3000-1700 BC) in Mohenjodaro. Leaves square measure lovely , 15-20 cm long and eight to ten cm wide. It will grow on different trees and buildings. Peepal could be a tree of nice medicative price. Its leaves function an exquisite laxative furthermore as tonic for body associate degree sensible for jaundice patients. Peepal leaves arehighly effective in treating heart disorders. It facilitate to regulate the palpitation of heart and cardinal weakness. Banyan Tree(Peral ) Ficus benghalensis Banyan tree is that the National Tree of Bharat. its an enormous tree towers o ver neighbors and has the widest reaching roots of all best-known trees, simply covering many acres. It sends off new shoots from its roots so one tree is basically a drag of branches, roots, and trunks. The Indian banyan regenerates and lives for an unbelievable length of your time. It has many medicative properties. Its leaf, bark, seeds, and fig square measure used for a spread of disorders like symptom, polyuria, dental, diabetics and pee disorders. Bark is employed for creating paper and ropes. The milklike latex that comes from its leaves and stems I utilized in several Ayurvedic Medicines. Terminalia Arjuna (Neermaruthu ) Tree become older to twenty five meter height ,smooth gray bark, leaves sub opposite 5-14 ,24.5,oblong, glabrous, usually UN equal, margin usually rough with Pieris rapae flowers. Fruit 2.3-2.5 cm long, fibrous woody with five exhausting wings, striated with varied , sickle-shaped veins. Its property against high blood pressure acts effectively. its autacoid enhancing, and coronary risk modulating properties.

Samadera indica Gaetin(Karingotta ) A moderate sized tree grows up to twenty meters tall. Leaves massive, oblong, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, shining, flowers straw in long drooping axillary umbels. Fruits massive flat, pear formed and compressed. Fruit contains brown, irregular surfaced seed. Plant is employed or the treatment of inflammatory disease, edema, itching, skin diseases, constipation, and general unfitness. Bark and seed oil square measure used for creating drugs. Erythrina Variegata(Mul Murikku) It is unremarkably called Indian tree or Tiger claw. its showy, spreading tree legume with sensible red blossoms. its a medium to massive tree, unremarkably reaching fifteen {to twenty|to twenty} m tall in 20 to twenty five years. its associate degree erect, spreading kind, generally with many vertically destined branches rising from the lower stem. the graceful bark is patterned with vertical lines of inexperienced, gray and white. tiny black prickles cowl the stem and branches. The leaflets square measure unremarkably varied, medium to light-weight inexperienced , heart formed, seven to twelve cm wide and twelve to eighteen cm long. The bark and leaves square measure utilized in several ancient medicines like , for destroying infective parasites and to alleviate joint pain. Juice of leaves is mixed with honey and eaten to kill tape worm, spherical worm and thread worm. ladies take this juice to stimulate lactation and expelling. its additionally used for infectious disease, to alleviate joint pain and as a expectorator. Stone Apple(Koovalam) Aegle marmelos The tree is Indian native that is slow growing . become older to the peak of fifty foot with short trunk, thick and soft bark , spreading and burry branches,the lower ones drooping. All the components of the tree ,stem, bark, root, leaves and fruit are used as drugs. The ripe fruit is aromatic, astringent that facilitate construction of skin, and a fluid and laxative. The unripe fruit is astringent organic process gastric that improves craving and antiscorbutic used for treating scurvy caused owing to ascorbic acid deficiency. The unripe fruit is incredibly effective for chronic symptom and infectious disease. Leaves square measure used for the treatment of ulcer. West Indian Medlar(Elanji) Mimusoaps Elanji Elanji could be a tropical tree that produces small flowers having sweet aroma throughout night. The leaves kind a region of perfumes with intoxicating fragrance. The fruit is edible, features a thick outer skin that encloses sweet yellow pulp and a tough shell seed. completely different a part of the tree have medicative properties. its utilized in the treatment for ulceration and hyper tension.

Black Plum (Njaval) It grows up to thirty meters tall, leaves easy, opposite, ovate, acuminate, organ dotted and flowers dark-green white. Fruits square measure dark purple color and contain single seeds. Wood is incredibly sturdy and is employed for railways, well motors, furniture, and for house construction. The tree will live for quite one hundred years. The trees get very little lovely flowers around March- April. its used for the treatments of fever, diabetics, diarrhea, leucorrhoea and skin diseases. Hydnocarpus laurifolia(Marotti) Moderate sized tree, grows up to30 meters tall. Leaves easy, alternate, ovate, oblong-lanceolate, serrate and flowers sexual, dark-green white, small, solitary. Fruits ball-shaped, tomentose berries with 15-20 angular seed with in. Seeds contain oil and was accustomed illumine lamps in ancient Kerala. its accustomed build blighter repellents. individuals of Kerala believed that the presence of the tree is a sign of water within the soil. Its oil is employed to form soap and a standard drugs for infectious disease. its additionally utilized in the treatments of skin condition, pruritus, leukoderma, sprain, ulcer, colic ,flatulence, diabetics and brochitus. Alstona scholaris(Ezhilam Pala) The tree native of Bharat features a specific leaf arrangement that the leaves square measure speculated to be whorls of seven. It will generally be six. The flowers offer out fragrance that offer individuals a feel of pleasure. The bark and leaves manufacture milky latex once bruised that is unhealthful. The latex provides sensible medicative properties that forms treatment remedy for fever, cough etc. The bark of the tree is employedin the treatment of tooth ache, protozoal infection and rheumatism. its additionally used as associate degree counterpoison to snake bite.Poison flowering tree. Strychnos nuxvomica(Kanjiram ) Its a moderate sized tree grows up to 15- twenty meters tall. Bark is gray color , leaves opposites , rectangular with sleek cuticle surfaces. Fruits square measure single , spherical and scarlet, contain several round seeds. The tree is unhealthful if consumed in lots of abundance however with ton of medicative properties. Its a tonic, stimulant and medication. Its utilized in preparations for nervous disorders. Seeds square measure prescribed for pain and as remedy. Leaves square measure applied to grub troubled ulcers and juice of recent wood is employed for upset stomach. Sandal Wood The medium sized tree grows up to 12-15 meters tall and matured by 65-75 years once its heart wood has greatest oil content. The oil develops within the roots and within the heart wood in 1520 years.

The tree of Indian origin, thought of sacred by Indians and used for spiritual rituals. The extremely aromatic wood is employed for creating perfumes and piece of furniture. its utilized in Indian, Chinese and Tibetan medicines. shoe wood oil and paste have calming and cooling result on body and mind. It helps relieve fever and burns and stops excessive sweating. The oil is sweet for skin diseases, ulcers, acne, and rashes. shoe wood acts as disinfectant, diuretic, expectorator and sedative. its bitter, sweet, astringent and cooling. shoe wood will balance the circulatory, digestive, metabolism, and systema nervosum. Spondias Spinatta(Ambazham ) A medium sized tree grows up to twenty five meters tall with leaves 30-40 cm long. Flowers in terminal panicles and fruits square measure recent drupes encircled by fibers and unripe fruit square measure light-weight inexperienced coloured that changes into yellow. Flower season is April-May. It is used for the treatments of earache, upset stomach and general unfitness. individuals of Kerala build pickle with the fruit.

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