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Myanmar Name – Nabe

Common Name – Moyen, Indian ash tree

Botanical Name – Lanneacoromandelica(Houtt.)Merr.

Family Name – Anacardiaceae

Habitat – Southeast Asia India Bangladesh Sri Lanka Thailand It is found in Malaysia and is found in Burma as its originalregion. Including tropical and subtropical regions. It can be seen in both deciduous and evergreen forests, as well as in savannas, grasslands, and along riverbanks.

Habit – Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark surface grey to dark brown, rough, exfoliating in small irregular flakes, fibrous; blaze crimson red or deep pink; exudation gummy, red; young parts stellate-rusty tomentose.

Bark – Grayish-brown and may be rough and fissured with age.

Leaves – Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the end of branchlets, estipulate; rachis 21-27 cm, stout, swollen at base, stellate-hairy pubescent when young; leaflets 7-11, opposite; petiolule 3-5 mm, slender, pubescent.

Inflorescence –  Small, greenish to yellowish flowers. These flowers are often arranged in panicles, which are branched clusters of flowers at the tips of the branches.

Flower – Flowers unisexual, yellowish-green; male flowers : in compound racemes, 8 mm across; calyx 4-lobed; lobes ovate, imbricate, persistent; petals 4, lanceolate, reflexed, imbricate; disc annular, 8-lobed; stamens 8, inserted below the disc, filaments unequal, subulate, ovary abortive; female flowers : in simple racemes; petals and sepals as in male flowers; stamens very short and small.

Fruit – Drupe, 12 mm long, ovoid, red; stone hard.

Seed – Hard, woody pit of the drupe. The seeds are typically brown and have a flattened, oval shape

Flowering and Fruiting Time – Flowering time from March to May and fruiting time from May to July.

Usage – An infusion of the bark is used for indigestion and joint pain. The wood is used to make furniture.