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Aswastha

Local Name	:	Aswastha
Botanical Name	:	Ficus religiosa L.
Common Name	:	Sacred fig
Family	:	Moraceae
Distribution	:	Found throughout India including Odisha. It can be found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and India, as well as in the Andaman Islands, Thailand, Myanmar, and Peninsular Malaysia.
Habit	:	Tree
Short Description	:	It is a large, deciduous tree with heart-shaped leaves and distinctive long-tipped leaf apexes.

Descriptions

It is a wide-spreading tree. Leaves are broadly ovate, glossy, and leathery, with a distinctive tail- like tip. Fruit is small, circular, compressed fig. The fruit is borne in pairs or singly on leafy branchlets in the axil, and is smooth and globose to depressed globose in shape.

Flowering & Fruiting Period

November-May

Use(s)

Tender leaves are used in constipation. Fruits are edible.