Home > Plants > Dhaura

Dhaura

Local Name	:	Dhaura
Botanical Name	:	Anogeissus latifolia (Roxb. ex DC.) Wall. ex Guill. & Perr.
Common Name	:	Dhau, Axle wood tree, Indian gum tree
Family	:	Combretaceae
Distribution	:	It is found throughout Odisha. It is found in most tropical and subtropical regions of India, except for the arid northwest and the moist northeast and Andaman Islands. Native to Nepal, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.
Habit	:	Tree
Short Description	:	It is a deciduous tree species native to the Indian subcontinent. It is an important timber species.

Descriptions

It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree. Leaves are simple, opposite or sub-opposite, entire and have a wide, elliptical shape, with an obtuse base, obtuse apex. Flowers are small, greenish-yellow, and bisexual, and appear in small, round heads. Fruit is a drupe, greenish-yellow, compressed, beaked, circular with two wings and has a single obovate seed.

Flowering & Fruiting Period

April-December

Use(s)

Decoction of bark is used in cough. The wood is used to make the chariot of Lord Jagannath during Car Festival in Odisha.