Saraca asoca (Roxb.) Willd.
| Kannada Name : | Achange, Ashoka, Eliyaala |
| Common Name : | Ashoka tree |
| Family Name : | Fabaceae |
| Scientific Name : | Saraca asoca |
| Species Type : | Indigenous |
| Phenology : | Evergreen |
| Conservation Status : | Not known |
| Flowering Period : | February - March |
| Fruiting Period : | July - October |
| Origin : | Indian Subcontinent |
Uses
The bark is also useful in dyspepsia, fever, and burning sensation. It is also used to treat menorrhagia, leucorrhoea, internal bleeding, hemorrhoids, and hemorrhagic dysentery
Description
Small evergreen trees, 7-10 m tall; Trunk often tubercled; bark lenticellate, dark, shallowly fissured; blaze purplish. Branchlets terete, glabrous. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; leaflets 4-6 pairs, narrow elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, subcoriaceous, glabrous, base acute to rounded or subcordate, apex acute to acuminate, margin undulate, young leaves red. Inflorescence dense corymbs. Flowers bisexual, orange, sometimes white; fragrant. Fruit a pod, flat, oblong, apiculate; seeds obovate-orbiculate.
