Toona CILIATA J. Roem.
| Synonym : | Cedrela toona Roxb. Cedrela microcarpa C.DC. Cedrela serrulata Miq. Toona microcarpa (C.DC.) Harms Toona mollis (Hand.-Mazz.) A. Chev. |
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| Bangla Name : | Tun, Chikado, Piyatoon, Rangi, Peo, Piays, Suruj (Chittagong), Kuma (Sylhet), Rongi (Mymensingh), Sorbet (Chakma), Chikado, Tsitkado (Mogh), Bol-bret (Garo). |
| English Name : | Red Toon, Indian Mahogany, Toon, Red Cedar, Moulmein Cedar, Sandal Neem, Singapore Cedar. |
| Family : | Meliaceae |
| Disease : | astringent, expectorant, tonic, antiperiodic, fevers, rheumatism, menstrual disorders and dysentery. |
| Description : | A medium to large, deciduous tree, up to 18 m high. Leaves paripinnate, 30-60 cm long, somewhat crowded at the ends of branchlets, leaflets 10-20, oblong-lanceolate, often falcate with oblique base, 5-12 cm long. Flowers small, white, in terminal pyramidal, cymose panicle. Capsule oblong, 2-2.5 cm long, dark brown when mature. |
| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka, Sylhet, Mymensingh, Dinajpur. Also found in the village shrubberies throughout the country. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Flowers contain a red colouring matter, nyctanthin and a flavanol dyestuff containing quercetin. Bark contains tannic acid, a bitter resin, a phlobaphene, citric acid and starch. Wood contains an essential oil consisting of tricyclic sesquiterpene, copaen |
| Uses : | Bark is powerful astringent, expectorant, tonic and valuable antiperiodic, in the form of infusion it is given in fevers, rheumatism and chronic infantile dysentery, as a local astringent it is applied in various forms of ulceration. Flowers are consider |
| Habit : | Tree |