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Muchukunda

Local Name	:	Muchukunda
Botanical Name	:	Pterospermum acerifolium (L.) Willd.
Common Name	:	Kanak Champa, Muchakunda, Karnikar Tree
Family	:	Malvaceae
Distribution	:	Found throughout India including Odisha. It is cultivated in Odisha. Native to Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand.
Habit	:	Tree
Short Description	:	It is a large evergreen tree, known for its large, lobed leaves and fragrant, white flowers. It can grow up to 30 meters tall and is often planted for its ornamental and medicinal properties.

Descriptions

It is a medium-sized tree. Leaves are leathery, rough, can range in shape from oblong, ovate, or broadly obovate, with a cordate base and a peltate blade base. The leaf margin can be entire, slightly wavy, or broadly toothed, and the edges are commonly dentate or irregularly lobed. Flowers are large, white, finger-shaped, axillary, solitary or in pair. Fruit is a hard capsule, oblong, 5-angled, brown, and hairy.

Flowering & Fruiting Period

March-December

Use(s)

The bark and leaves are used to treat small pox.