Diospyros malabarica
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Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel.
| Order | Ericales |
|---|---|
| Family | Ebenaceae |
| Genus | Diospyros |
2n =
Origin : India to South-Esat Asia
wild
| English | Malabar ebony |
|---|
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Uses summary
- wood: streaked ebony (PROSEA); greyish (Wealth of India)
- seeds: astringent (medicine)
- fruit (young): tannin for dying, gum for caulking and as glue
- fruit (ripe): edible
- medicinals: fruit, seed oil, bark
Description
Popular names
- English:
- Malabar ebony (PROSEA)
- gaus persimmon (Wealth of India)
- Sanskrit: tinduka, krishnasara, virupaka (Wealth of India)
- Hindi: gab, talatendu, makurkendi (Wealth of India)
- Bengali: gab, makurkendi, tendu (Wealth of India)
- Marathi: timburi, temburni (Wealth of India)
- Telugu: tinduki, gabu (Wealth of India)
- Tamil: kattatti, kavikattai, tumbi (Wealth of India)
- Kannada: holetupare, kusharta (Wealth of India)
- Malayalam: panachi, vananji (Wealth of India)
- Uriya: dhusarokendu, kendu (Wealth of India)
- Indonesia: culiket (Sundanese), kledung (Javanese), klakur ((Timor) (PROSEA)
- Malaysia: kayu arang, kamoi bukit, kumun (peninsular) (PROSEA)
- Burma: plab, tako suam (PROSEA)
- Cambodia: tang kor (PROSEA)
- Laos: küa namz, hnag hèèwx, lang dam (PROSEA)
- Thailand: tako suan (northern), tako thai (general), phlap (peninsular) (PROSEA)
- Vietnam: thi dâù heo, cuỡm thi (PROSEA)
Classification
Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel. (1834)
synonyms:
- Diospyros glutinifera Roxb. (1795)
- Diospyros embryopteris Pers. (1807), nom. illeg.
- Diospyros globularia (Miq.) Koord. & Valeton (1898)
- Diospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gürke (1891)
Cultivars
History
Uses
References
- PROSEA 5(2), 1995. Plant resources of South-East Asia. vol. 5(2). Timber trees : minor commercial timbers. ed. by R.H.M.J. Lemmens, I. Soerianegara & W.C. Wong. Leiden/Wageningen, Backhuys/PROSEA. (Bogor, PROSEA, 1995). 655 p.
- Wealth of India (The), 1952. A dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Vol. 3. Raw materials : D-E. New-Delhi, Council of scientific and industrial research. XX-236-XXX p., 22 pl., index vol. 1-3. (as Diospyros peregrina)