Sanskrit: Neelanjani
Tamil: Alli, Kaya, கல்காசான் kalkaasan, கஞ்சன் kanchan
Malayalam: cherukaasaav-ചെറുകാശാവ്, Kayavu- കായാവ്, Kayamboo -കായാമ്പൂ
Hindi-Kalakudo
Talbot Memecylon is a Western ghats small trees, grow above 1000 meters altitude, endemic, grow to the height of 8 m tall. Bark grey and finely fissured. Branchlets substrate, and glabrous, the leaves are simple, arranged oppositely, petiole 0.5 to 1 cm long, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, end narrowly acuminate, base acute, margin entire. Flowers are blue, found in axillaries on a short peduncle. The fruits are berry, 0.8 cm across, green turning yellow when ripe with single seeded.
Leaf Arrangement
Shape-Oblong | Margin-Entire | Venation-pinnate |
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Useful plant parts:
Bark, root, seeds, leaf
Medicinal uses:
Anti-diarrhoeal, Hypoglycemic, Antimicrobial, Wound healing.
How to prepare medicine:
Well, ground leaf paste can be applied on herpes wounds to cure fast.
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