Bombax insigne Wall.
| Synonym : | Bombax scopulorumDunn Bombax tenebrosumDunn Gossampinus insignisBakh. Salmalia insignis(Wall.) Schott & Endl |
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| Bangla Name : | Simain-gachh(Chakma),Lapeng pang(Marma),Bhuchokh(Tripura) Bon shimul,pahari shimul,Tula gachh, |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Bombaceae |
| Disease : | Diabetes, excessive menstruation, facial paralysis, hyper acidity, jaundice, marasmus, menorrhoea, menorrhagia, oedema, sexual weakness, spermatorrhoea, spermaturia |
| Description : | Deciduous treess; bark grey to greyish-brown, smooth, fibrous; Leaves digitately compound, alternate, crowded at the tip of branchlets, stipulate; stipules small; base attenuate; apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate; margin entire, glabrous. Flowers bisexual, pale pink or creamy yellow, solitary, axillary; calyx irregularly lobed; stamens about 500 in 5 bundles; anthers dorsifixed, reniform; ovary ovoid, tomentose, superior, syncarpous; ovules numerous on axile placenta; Fruit a capsule, 5-angled, 5 valved, glabrous; seeds many,subobovoid, brownish-black, embedded in dense creamy silky fibres." |
| Distribution : | - |
| Chemical Constituents : | - |
| Uses : | Diabetes, excessive menstruation, facial paralysis, hyper acidity, jaundice, marasmus, menorrhoea, menorrhagia, oedema, sexual weakness, spermatorrhoea, spermaturia |
| Habit : | Tree |