Botanical Name

Dilleni ndica

Family

Dilleniaceae

Sanskrit name

Bhavya

English name

Elephant apple

Hindi name

chalta

Kannada name

Betta kanagale

Habit

Tree

Habitat

Grows best in humid and warm regions

Plant Description

Ever green large shrub. Leaves are long, green with a conspicuously corrugated surface with impressed veins. Flowers are large with 5 white petals and many yellow stamens in the centre. Fruit is aggregated and containing 5 seeds, embedded in fibrous pulp.

Distribution

South East Asia

Part Used

Fruit

Medicinal uses

Used in lack of appetite, indigestion, bad odor from mouth, cough, skin diseases. Fruit pulp is used as shampoo to ash the scalp hair.

Other uses

Fruit pulp si sour and used to make curry

Ecological significance

Asian Elephants have fondness to fruits.