Bahunia racemosa

Bahunia racemosa

Botanical nameBahunia racemosa

Common Name– Apta

Habit

  • Deciduous
  • Small tree
  • Fast growing

Specific Properties

  • Can grow in dry and harsh conditions

Ecology

  • Deer feed on leaves
  • Attracts lots of honeybees and other insects
  • Butterfly host plant for Black Rajah and Lemon Emigrant species

Uses

  • Tree is used in the treatment of headache, fever, skin and blood diseases, jaundice, chronic dysentery, diarrhoea, and leucorrhoea, infection of malaria, boil, glandular swelling, tumours, cancer & used as contraceptive
  • An extract of the leaves has been proved to show analgesic, anti-pyretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-spasmodic, anthelmintic and anti-microbial activity
  • It cures scorpion bite, relives food poisoning in cattle
  • The leaves are used for making bidis
  • Flowers are used in curries and for making chutney
  • Well suited for agroforestry-fodder for cattle, windbreak on farm bunds
  • Yields gum and fibre and bark is used for tanning and dyeing
  • Wood is used for construction of bridges

Propagation

  • Seeds

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