Buchanania cochinchinensis

• Botanical Name : Buchanania cochinchinensis (Lour.) M. R. Almeida
• Synonyms : Buchanania lanzan Spreng.
• Common Name : Charodi, Chironji Tree
• Plant Family : Anacardiaceae
• Plant Form : Tree
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra

About Buchanania cochinchinensis Plant :

• Habit : A tree, young parts with silky hairs.
• Bark : Blackish-brown and rough.
• Leaves : Thickly coriaceous, broadly oblong, obtuse, hariy below, base rounded.
• Flowers :
  • Small, greenish-white, in terminal or axillary, pyramidal, rusty panicles, bracts small, caduceus.
  • Calyx 3-5 toothed, imbricate.
  • Petals 4-5, ovate-oblong, disk fleshy.Stamens 10, all fertile.
  • Ovaries 5, one perfect, conicle, hairy, the other 4 reduced to filaments.
• Fruit : Drupe, oblique, black, stone hard, 2-valved, 1-seeded.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : January-March
• Significance : Seeds are eaten and used as a tonic for brain.
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