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Local Name Kukudahadi
Botanical Name Lasiococca comberi Haines
Common Name Kukudahadi, Kukri-hari
Family Euphorbiaceae
Distribution Found in Khordha, Nayagarh, Mayurbhanj district of Odisha. It is native to the Eastern Ghats of India and Thailand.
Habit Tree
Short Description It is a medium-sized evergreen tree having potent medicinal properties.

Descriptions

It is a medium-sized evergreen tree. Leaves are simple, opposite, entire, and elliptic to lanceolate in shape. Flowers are small and inconspicuous, white, or cream-colored, borne in axillary clusters or panicles. Fruits are capsule with three locular, depressed, covered with conical tubercles ending in a seta.

Flowering & Fruiting Period

March-October

Use(s)

Seed oil is used to treat cracked heel.