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Mimusops elengi

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

(unranked): Angiosperms(unranked): Eudicots

(unranked): Asterids

Order: Ericales

Family: Sapotaceae

Genus: Mimusops

Species: M. elengi L.

Binomial name

Mimusops elengi

L.

The ripe fruit has many

traditional uses.

Flowers in Hyderabad, India.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mimusops elengi Maulsari is a medium-sized evergreen tree found in

tropical forests in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Northern Australia.

English common names include Spanish cherry,[1]Medlar,[1] and

Bullet wood. In Hindi Maulsari. Its timber is valuable, the fruit is edible,

and it has traditional medicinal uses.

Its flower is the provincial flower of Yala province, Thailand.[2]

1 Tree description

2 Ayurvedic uses

3 Other uses4 References

Bullet wood is an evergreen tree reaching a height of about 16 m. It

flowers in April, and fruiting occurs in June. Leaves are glossy, dark

green, oval shaped, 514 cm long and 2.56 cm wide. Flowers are

cream, hairy and scented. Bark is thick and appears dark brownish black

or grayish black in colour, with striations and a few cracks on thesurface. The tree may reach up to a height of 918 m with about 1 m in

circumference.

The bark, flowers, fruits and

seeds are astringent, cooling,

anthelmintic, tonic, and

febrifuge. It is mainly used in

dental ailments like bleedinggums, pyorrhea, dental caries and

loose teeth.

Extract of flowers used against

heart diseases, leucorrhoea,

menorrhagia and act as antiduretic in polyuria and antitoxin. The snuff made

from the dried and powdered flowers used in a disease called Ahwa in which

strong fever, headache and pain in the neck, shoulders and other parts of the

body occurs.

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Ripened fruits facilitates to cure burning urination. The ripe fruit pounded and mixed with water is given to

promote delivery in childbirth. Powder of dried flowers is a brain tonic and useful as a snuff to relieve

cephalalgia. Decoction of bark is used to wash the wounds.

The edible fruit is softly hairy becoming smooth, ovoid, bright red-orange when ripe.

The wood is a luxurious wood that is extremely hard, strong and tough, and rich deep red in color. Theheart wood is sharply defined from the sapwood. It works easily and takes a beautiful polish. Weight is

1008 kg per cubic meter.

^ab Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976.Hortus third: A concise

dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada . Macmillan, New York.

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^-Yala Province (http://www.h2th.com/index.php?lite=article&qid=351295)2.

Brock, J., Top End Native Plants, 1988. ISBN 0-7316-0859-3

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