Kannada Name : | - |
Common Name : | Candle tree |
Family Name : | Bignoniaceae |
Scientific Name : | Parmentiera cereifera |
Species Type : | Exotic |
Phenology : | Evergreen |
Conservation Status : | Endangered |
Flowering Period : | April-June |
Fruiting Period : | April-June |
Origin : | Panama |
Fruits are edible. Methanolic extracts exhibited Anti-inflammatory, anti-hyperglycemic and gastroprotective.
Evergreen tree, 7-20 tall, usually multibranched at the base. Leaves opposite, trifoliate; leaflets elliptic to elliptic-rhomboid, membranous, base attenuate, apex acute to accuminate. Inflorescence a fascicle of 2 to 3 flowers or solitary, cauliflorous. Flowers bisexual, tubular, white to greenish-white. Fruit a berry, waxy, yellow when ripe, linear oblong, fruits surrounding a fibrous column and fleshy part surrounding the seeds. Seeds small with thin, narrow and mucilaginous wing.