Cordia dichotoma G.Forst.
| Kannada Name : | Challe |
| Common Name : | Indian cherry tree |
| Family Name : | Boraginaceae |
| Scientific Name : | Cordia dichotoma |
| Species Type : | Indigenous |
| Phenology : | Deciduous |
| Conservation Status : | Not known |
| Flowering Period : | March - May |
| Fruiting Period : | June - August |
| Origin : | Indomalayan realm |
Uses
The fruit used to remedy treatment to relive several diseases as anti-diabetic, immunomodulator, hepatoprotective, treatment of inflammation, fever, bronchitis and astringent, wounds healing and paralytic in folk medicine.
Description
Medium sized, deciduous tree, up to 15 m tall with a spreading crown.Bark is greyish brown, smooth or longitudinally wrinkled. Leaves simple, alternate, broadly ovate or elliptic oblong, sparsely pubescent or glabrous, base rounded to broadly cuneate, apex obtuse to mucronate, margin dentate or entire. Inflorescence a dichotomous corymbose cyme. Flowers dimorphic; male flowers white; bisexual flowers larger than male flowers, white. Fruit a drupe, fragrant, subglobose, yellow or pinkish-yellow, black on ripening, with sticky mesocarp, persistent calyx, single seeded.
