Cordia obliqua willd. | |
Boraginaceae | |
Perunaruvuli | |
| Botanical Name | Cordia obliqua willd. |
| Synonyms | Cordia latifolia .Roxb. |
| Family | Boraginaceae |
| Common Name | English: Clammy cherry / Tamil: Perunaruvuli, Pasaipazham |
| Distribution | Global : Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and North Africa Indian : Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. |
| Description | Medium sized deciduous trees up to10m Tall with Yellowish-grey bark. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate, elliptic, ovate, or orbicular, margin entire or crenate. Inflorescence Axillary or terminal cymes. Flowers polygamous, white, calyx tube campanulate, corolla 5 lobed, recurved. Stamens five hairy at base. Anthers 3 mm, oblong. ovary superior, tetra carpel, globose, ovule one in each cell, style coiled, stigma lobes fan shaped. Fruit a drupe, ovoid, Light pinkish to yellowish. |
| Flowering Fruiting period | March-August |
| Uses | Fruit edible and used as glue. |
| Medicinal Uses | Medicinally importance and reported to have anthelmintic, purgative, diuretic, expectorant, antipyretic, hepatoprotective and analgesic action. |
| Tamil Name | Perunaruvuli |
