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Campus Trees

Artocarpus heterophyllus

பலாமரம்

 Family: Moraceae

Common Names: Jack fruit tree, Kathal, Panasam

Flowering Period: November – April

Description:

  • Evergreen tree with bark blackish grey, mottled with green and black having exudation milky white latex.
  • Leaves are simple, alternate, obovate-oblong, margin entire, glabrous and shining above and scabrous beneath.
  • Flowers unisexual, minute, yellowish green.

 Uses:

  • The fruit becomes sweeter as it ripens, as some of the carbohydrates are converted into sugars.
  • The ashes of leaves, with or without oil, are used to treat ulcers, diarrhoea, boils, stomach-ache and wounds.
  • The pulp and seeds of the fruit are regarded as a cooling tonic