Aegle marmelos

Aegle marmelos

 

Botanical name Aegle marmelos

Common Name– Bael

Habit

  • Deciduous Tree
  • Medium
  • Slow growing

Specific Properties

  • Drought resistant

Ecology

  • Frugivorous birds and mammals feed on fruit
  • Attract a lot of insects
  • Larval food plant for Lime Swallowtail and Common Mormon butterflies

Uses

  • One of the most nutritious fruits of India; its therapeutic and medicinal properties have known since ages
  • Fruit is edible, has cooling effect, promotes digestion, is antiviral, brain and heart tonic, cures ulcer etc. Used to make juice, jam, dried powder.
  • All parts of tree are medicinal. Have anti-diarrhoeal, anti-microbial, antiviral, radioprotective, anticancer, chemo-preventive, antipyretic, ulcer healing, antigenotoxic, diuretic, antifertility, anti-inflammatory, anti-dysenteric, antidiabetic properties etc
  • Fodder

Propagation

  • Seeds

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