Millingtonia hortensis L.f.
| Kannada Name : | Birate mara, Aakasha mallige |
| Common Name : | Indian Cork tree |
| Family Name : | Bignoniaceae |
| Scientific Name : | Millingtonia hortensis |
| Species Type : | Indigenous |
| Phenology : | Deciduous |
| Conservation Status : | Least concern |
| Flowering Period : | October - December |
| Fruiting Period : | October - December |
| Origin : | South Asia |
Uses
It is considered ornamental and the pleasant fragrance of the flowers renders it ideal as a garden tree. The wood is also used as timber and the bark is used as an inferior substitute for cork. The leaves are also used as a cheap substitute for tobacco in cigarettes
Description
Evergreen trees, 8-25 m tall. Bark corky. Leaves imparipinnately bipinnate, opposite; pinnae 2-3 pairs with 5-7 leaflets per pinna; leaflets elliptic, ovate, or ovate-oblong, glabrous, base rounded, oblique, apex acuminate, margin entire. Inflorescence a paniculate cyme. Flowers bisexual, white, tube shaped, pubescent adaxially. Fruit a capsule, linear, compressed. Seeds discoid-oblong, compressed, winged.
