Bauhinia PURPUREA L.
| Synonym : | Bauhinia castrata Blanco Bauhinia rosea Corner Caspareopsis purpurea (L.) Pittier Phanera purpurea (L.) Benth. |
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| Bangla Name : | Kanchan, Devakanchan, Raktakanchan, Koiral. |
| English Name : | Butterfly tree, Geranium tree, Orchid tree. |
| Family : | Caesalpinaeae |
| Disease : | Dropsy, pain, rheumatism, diarrhea, ulcers, carminative and laxative. |
| Description : | A small to medium-sized evergreen to semi-evergreen tree. Leaves rather longer than broad, shallowly cordate, two-lobed. Flowers large, rosy-purple, in few flowered terminal and axillary, brown-tomentose corymbs. Petals oblanceolate, with a long claw, twice the calyx. Pods 15-25 cm long, ligulate, flat pointed. |
| Distribution : | Said to occur in sal forests, usually planted as ornamental plant. |
| Chemical Constituents : | The tree yields a gum (polysaccharides) and the bark contains large quantities of tannic acid, glucose and gum. Plant also contains 25.6% crude protein consisting of a large number of essential and other amino acids (Ghani, 2003). Flowers contain astragal |
| Uses : | The plant is used in dropsy, pain, rheumatism, thigh swelling, convulsion, delirium febris, Datura intoxication and blackness of lip or tongue. Bark acts as an astringent in diarrhoea, its decoction is used as a wash in ulcers. The roots are carminative a |
| Habit : | Tree |