Limonia acidissima

Botanical name: Limonia acidissima

Common Name: Wood Apple / Kaitha

Habit

• Deciduous tree
• Medium sized
• Slow growing
  
  

Specific Properties

• Drought tolerant
  
  

Ecology

• Macaques, civets, squirrels feed on fruits
• Birds and bees feed on nectar and pollen
• Elephants feed on leaves
• Larval host plant for Lime Swallowtail, Common Guava Blue and Common Peacock Butterflies
  
  

Uses

• Fruits are edible, used to prepare jam, juice, pickle etc
• Leaves are edible, eaten in salad
• Fruit is used for treatment of diarrhoea, dysentery, hiccoughs, sore throat, asthama, eye infections, gum diseases also as tonic to liver, lungs, and cardiac tonic
• Leaves are good cure for vomiting, indigestions, hiccups and dysentery, they contain tannins and essential oil
• Its gum is used for adulterant of gum arabic, in making watercolours, ink, dyes and varnish
• Tree yields Tannin, Timber
  
  

Propagation

• Seed
• Root cuttings
• Air layering