Botanical Name – Gmelina arborea

Common Name – Ghamar

Habit

• Deciduous tree
• Medium sized
• Fast growing
  
  

Specific Properties

• Prefers moist fertile valleys
• Pioneer forest species
• Preferred for forest restoration
  
  

Ecology

• Attracts lots of wildlife. Birds, Bats, mammals like langurs, civets, squirrels feed on fruits
• Bees, birds, bats, insects feed on nectar and pollen
• Larval host plant for Short-Banded Sailer butterfly
  
  

Uses

• Fruit is edible
• Valued for its medicinal properties since ancient times. It has antidiuretic, anti-diarrhoeal, antipyretic, anti-analgesic, antioxidant, antidiabetic, anti-helmintic, antibacterial, antifungal, cardio-protective, insecticidal, cures ulcer, gastro-protective, anticancer and immune modulatory activity.
• Applications in treatment of bone fracture, hypertension, as blood purifier, laxative, stomachic, tonic and as antidote to poisons
• Good for agroforestry, grown as a windbreak and as hedge
• Leaf as fodder and feed to silkworm
• Used in papermaking and in matchwood industry
• Fruits yield yellow dye
• Valued for timber
  
  

Propagation

• Seeds