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Ambada

Local Name	:	Ambada
Botanical Name	:	Spondias pinnata (L.F.) Kurz
Common Name	:	Hog plum
Family	:	Anacardiaceae
Distribution	:	The species is native to Indian subcontinent, distributed and cultivated throughout India including Odisha
Habit	:	Tree
Short Description	:	It is a medium sized tree with smooth and whitish bark.

Descriptions

It is a medium sized tree with smooth and whitish bark. Leaves oblong acuminate, long petiole, leaflets with short petiole and aromatic. Flowers white or cream, small, sessile, in axillary panicles. Fruits as drupes, ellipsoid and yellowish when ripe.

Flowering & Fruiting Period

February – March & fruit mature at following January.

Use(s)

Fruits are edible and bark is use for treatment of joint pains.