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Choerospondias_axillaris
Choerospondias axillaris
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genre: Choerospondias
Species: C. axillaris
Binomial name: Choerospondias axillaris (Roxb.) BLBurtt & AWHill
Choerospondias axillaris, known in English as "Nepali plum", is a tree of the family Anacardiaceae. He hails from a large part of Asia, from India to China and Japan. Its fruit is about 3 centimeters long and has a sour and whitish flesh and a green to yellow skin. The fruit is made of pickles, fruit pies and spicy sweets in Nepal. The tree has long been grown in rural Nepal for its fruit. The fruit is nutritious.
It is a deciduous tree up to 20 meters high. The smaller branches are purple-brown in color. Composite leaves are up to 40 cm (16 in.) Long and are divided into 3 to 6 papyrose oval leaflets, each measuring up to 12 cm × 4.5 cm (4.7 in. × 1.8 in.). The tree is dioecious, with male and female trees producing different types of inflorescence.
The male flowers are in long clusters and have curved, mottled petals about 3 millimeters long. The female flowers are solitary in the axils of the leaves at the end of the branches. They are bigger than the male flowers and give the edible drupe.
The fallen fruits are eaten and dispersed by the animals.
In addition to fruits, the tree produces valuable wood and hard seeds that are burned as fuel and some parts of which are used in medicine in Vietnam.
Catechin-7-O-glucoside can be found in C. axillaris stem bark
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genre: Choerospondias
Species: C. axillaris
Binomial name: Choerospondias axillaris (Roxb.) BLBurtt & AWHill
Choerospondias axillaris, known in English as "Nepali plum", is a tree of the family Anacardiaceae. He hails from a large part of Asia, from India to China and Japan. Its fruit is about 3 centimeters long and has a sour and whitish flesh and a green to yellow skin. The fruit is made of pickles, fruit pies and spicy sweets in Nepal. The tree has long been grown in rural Nepal for its fruit. The fruit is nutritious.
It is a deciduous tree up to 20 meters high. The smaller branches are purple-brown in color. Composite leaves are up to 40 cm (16 in.) Long and are divided into 3 to 6 papyrose oval leaflets, each measuring up to 12 cm × 4.5 cm (4.7 in. × 1.8 in.). The tree is dioecious, with male and female trees producing different types of inflorescence.
The male flowers are in long clusters and have curved, mottled petals about 3 millimeters long. The female flowers are solitary in the axils of the leaves at the end of the branches. They are bigger than the male flowers and give the edible drupe.
The fallen fruits are eaten and dispersed by the animals.
In addition to fruits, the tree produces valuable wood and hard seeds that are burned as fuel and some parts of which are used in medicine in Vietnam.
Catechin-7-O-glucoside can be found in C. axillaris stem bark