Tamarix indica

Tamarix indica Willd

Family- Tamaricaceae

Found mostly near streams and rivers

Medicinal uses -

1. It used for fuel wood & timber in certain countries in the wood.

2. The bark is bitter & a severe tonic, leaves & fruit are useful for chronic diarrhea & dysentery.

3. The roots are beneficial for sore throat & ulcerating piles.

4. Plant extract are rich by acid compounds that are used as an inhibitor of nephrolithiasis.

5. It can be used as prophylactic & therapeutic remedies to cure malaria as folk medicine.

Sugimani marndi

Oroxylum indicum

Oroxylum indicum 

A threatened species

Family : Bignoniaceae

Common name :  Fanfana (Odisha)

Location: Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Pollination: by Bat

Flowers bloom in the evening owing to the nocturnal nature of their pollinators and drop off shortly after midnight. 

Medicinal Uses : 

1. In Hindu medicine, the root, bark, stem, and leaf 

are prescribed for snake bite in diarrhoea and dysentery.

2. The seeds and bark are used medicinally for alleviating body pain, especially during fevers.

3. Tender fruits have spas- molytic, carminative, bronchitis, leucoderma and stomachic properties, while seeds are purgative.

4. It is an ingredient of ‘dashamoolarishta’ of Ayurvedic medicine.

5. It is a plant also with edible leaves and stems.The large young pods are eaten especially in Thailand and Laos.

6. It has been found to have astringent, 

anti-inflammatory, antihelminthic, antibronchitic, 

antileucodermatic, antirheumatic, anti-anorexic properties.

7. The root bark is well known tonic andastringent useful in fever, diarrhoea, dysentry, bronchitis, 

intestinal worms, leucoderma, asthma, inflammation, anal 

troubles, tuberculosis etc. 

Interaction

Duranta erecta L.

Family : Verbenaceae

Location: Kalahandi, Odisha

It is a  woody shrub and flowering period is during June-December. The flowers

are small, tubular and blue in colour. 

This seasonal flowering served as seasonal nectar source for many butterflies (here is the Papilio demoleus/ Lime butterfly) for about six months. As the plant is used as hedge plant, it is a potential nectar for butterflies.

Phoenix sylvestris

Phoenix sylvestris 

Family :  Arecaceae 

Local name: Khajuri

Parts used : seeds, leaves, pollen, fruits, roots, gum and trunk

Medicinal values :

1. Seeds are used in a paste to relieve ague.

2. Its roots are used against tooth ache.

3. The fruit is a natural source of folic acid, an important micro nutrient for cardio vascular disease. 

4. Its gum is used for the treatment of diarrhoea.

5. constituents of dates act as potent antioxidant, anti-tumour, anti- inflammatory and ant-diabetic.