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Kangada

Local Name	:	Kangada
Botanical Name	:	Xylia xylocarpa (Roxb.) W.Theob.
Common Name	:	Burma Ironwood
Family	:	Fabaceae
Distribution	:	Found throughout Odisha. Distributed in the tropical parts of India. Also found in South and Southeast Asia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Bangladesh.
Habit	:	Tree
Short Description	:	It is a large deciduous tree with a dense, spreading crown, and compound leaves with 2-5 pairs of leaflets. It produces small, yellowish-white flowers in globular heads and large, woody seed pods.

Descriptions

It is a deciduous tree with a dense crown. Leaves are compound, bipinnate, petiolate, and alternate. The leaflets are entire, coriaceous, and rarely truncate at the base, acute, acuminate, or rarely obtuse at the apex. Flowers are bisexual, sessile, club-shaped, and dull yellow in colour. Fruit is woody, rusty velvety, shaped like a boomerang, splitting into two twisted segments.

Flowering & Fruiting Period

April-May & November-April

Use(s)

Seed oil is used in piles.