Description

• Indian Cork Tree is cultivated in most parts of India, both in gardens and avenues. Tall and straight, with comparatively few branches, its popularity lies in its ornamental value.
• It is a fine tree, fast growing, but with brittle wood, liable to be damaged by storms. In favourable positions it can grow to 24 m tall.
• The ashy bark is cracked and furrowed. A profusion of silvery-white, delightfully fragrant flowers crowns the foliage. Upright open clusters with arching blooms terminate every branchlet.
• The fruit is very long and narrow, pointed at both ends and contains thin flat seeds. Trees do not seed very easily in India.

Uses

• Used as an Ornamental tree.
• The wood is used as timber and the bark is used as yellow dye and inferior substitute for cork.
• The flowers are added to tobacco for smoking as treatment for throat ailments. Stem also having great medicinal value using as lung tonic and cough diseases.
• Leaves and roots of cork tree used as anti-asthmatic and antimicrobial activity.