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Poilundia

Local Name	:	Poilundia
Botanical Name	:	Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.
Common Name	:	Putranjiva
Family	:	Putranjivaceae
Distribution	:	It is cultivated throughout Odisha. Native to tropical Asia and is found throughout India, as well as in Bangladesh, Indo-China, Java, New Guinea, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
Habit	:	Tree
Short Description	:	It is an evergreen tree, valued for its ornamental foliage and medicinal uses. It grows up to 12 meters tall and produces small, yellowish-green flowers followed by drupe-like fruits.

Descriptions

It is a moderate-sized, evergreen tree. Leaves are simple, dark green, shiny, and elliptic-oblong, arranged alternately, acute, or shortly acuminate apex, an obliquely cuneate base, and serrate margins. Flowers are unisexual, small, yellow in color. Fruit is a drupe, oval or ellipsoid in shape.

Flowering & Fruiting Period

March-October

Use(s)

The leaves are useful in treating fever. It is cultivated for ornamental purposes.