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