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Myanmar Name – Lunbo

Common Name – Chironji, Charoli

Botanical Name – Buchananialanzan Roxb.

Family Name – Anacardiaceae

Habitat – Native to the Indian subcontinent and is commonly found in various parts of India. It thrives in a range of habitats, including deciduous forests, scrublands.

Habit – Deciduous trees, medium-sized tree, typically growing to a height of 5-15 meters and has a spreading canopy and a well-branched structure.

Bark – Bark 10-12 mm thick, surface black or dark brown, rough, tessellate the cracks being deep and narrow, some what resembling crocodile hide; blaze red.

Leaves – Simple, alternate, and elliptical, dark green and glossy, measuring around 5-15 cm in length,  petiole 12-22 mm, stout, glabrous; lamina 10-23.5 x 5-12 cm, broadly oblong, base round or acute, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire.

Inflorescence – Small clusters and typically located at the branch tips.

Flower – Flowers bisexual, greenish-white, sessile, in pubescent terminal and axillary panicles; calyx lobes 5, persistent; petals 5, oblong, reflexed, pilose; stamens 10, inserted at the base of fleshy disc; filaments free, glabrous; disc cupular, 5 lobed.

Fruit– Fruit a drupe, 10-13 x 8 mm, oblong, laterally compressed, black; stone hard, 2 valved; seed one.

Seed – Small, about the size of an almond, and have a white, wrinkled appearance.

Flowering and Fruiting Time – Flowering time from February to May and fruiting time  from April to June.

Usage – The seeds are used in cooking .In traditional medicine, the leaves and stems are indigestion; impotence Falling of sperm excessive menstrual bleeding.