Antiaris toxicaria | SMPB Kerala

Family: Moraceae
Vernacular names: Arayanjili, Aranthal, Maravuri, അരയാഞ്ഞിലി, അരന്താൽ, മരവുരി (Malayalam), Upas tree (English), Valkala (Sanskrit), Nettavil (Tamil)
Distribution: Paleotropics
Description: Large trees. Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious. Flowers unisexual, greenish-yellow, minute, in spikes; male receptacle, axillary, female solitary in an involucre of few connate bracts. Fruit a drupe, pyriform or obovoid.
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, also in sacred groves
Flowering & Fruiting: January-April

Parts used: Latex and seeds
Properties & Uses: Latex in small dose is a mild cardiac and circulatory stimulant; in large doses a myocardial poison. Seeds are used as febrifuge and useful in dysentery.
Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk,
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