Botanical Name: Pterocarpus marsupium

Family: Fabaceae

Sanskrit name: Asana

Tamil name: Vengai

English name: Malabar keno

Kannada: Nettaru hone, Rakta honne

Habit: Tree

Habitat: Moist and dry deciduous forests

Conservation Status: Vulnerable

Plant Description:

Tree grows up to 30 m. tall, surface greyish black with deep vertical cracks. Wood pink, oozes out red sap. Leaflets, deep green borne on slender stalk. Flowers are yellow produced in panicles. Fruit is broadly winged with single seed.

Distribution: Sri Lanka, India: Western Ghats, central India, Orissa, Nepal

Part used: Heartwood, resin

Medicinal uses: Used in bleeding disorders, gastritis, diabetes, swelling, leucoderma, herpes and other skin diseases.

Other uses: Heartwood is used in making tumbler.

Ecological Significance: Cultivated as wind screen, in farm lands.

Propagation : Through seeds.