Gardenia RESINIFERA Roth.
| Synonym : | Gardenia lucida Roxb. Genipa resinifera (Roth) Baill. |
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| Bangla Name : | - |
| English Name : | White Emetic Nut. |
| Family : | Rubiaceae |
| Disease : | Stimulant,astringent ,constipation, vomiting, pains,bronchitis and destroy maggots wounds. |
| Description : | A small deciduous tree or large shrub, 6-7.5 m high. Leaves 6.3-20 cm long, elliptic-oblong, subacute. Flowers fragrant, axillary, solitary, from the axils of the uppermost leaves near the ends of the branches, corolla large, white, soon turning yellow. Fruit ellipsoid or globose, 2-2.5 cm diam., smooth, marked with longitudinal lines |
| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Friuts contain a gum-resin. A number of flavonoids are present in the fruit which include gardenins, A, B, C, D & E, demethylated tangeretin, nevadensin and two wogonins, hexacosyl p-coumarate, wogonin derivatives and a flavone (Ghani, 2003). |
| Uses : | The gum is antiseptic, stimulant and astringent to the bowels, used in cutaneous diseases, increases appetite, relieves constipation, vomiting, pains of bronchitis and destroy maggots in wounds. |
| Habit : | Shrub |