Kydia calycina

Botanical name: Kydia calycina      

Common name: Kydia, Pula

Distribution: Throughout India

Habitat:

Grows in arid regions, hilly areas. in mixed, moist, and deciduous forests of India

Habit:

• Evergreen tree
• Fast growing
• Medium tree

Ecology:

• Flowers visited by Golden Angle, Angled Pierrot, Common Silverline, Long Banded Silverline, and Large Guava Blue butterflies
• Larval host plant for White-branded Ace butterfly
• Elephant, Sambar and bison feeds on leaves
• Bees visits flowers as pollinators

Uses:

• It is used traditionally as a remedy in different disease conditions like skin disease, hyperglycemia, antihyperlipidemic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antioxidant, antiulcer, antifungal, immunomodulatory, febrifuge, wound healing
• Used to treat body swellings, to increase saliva and as an anti-inflammatory drug
• Traditionally it is used to treat jaundice, skin diseases, ulcers, arthritis, lumbago, wounds, cuts, and boils
• Leaf paste applied to get relief from pain and used in poultices for skin diseases
• Leaves chewed to overcome the deficiency of saliva
• Leaf decoction eaten for reducing the temperature of the body
• This plant has a high Protein value Above 20% so used as Food
• A paste of roots in butter, linseed oil & hen’s egg is applied on fracture
• Kydia calycina fibers are used in the textile industry
• Stem of the tree is used in clarifying sugars.

Propagation:

Seeds or stem cuttin