ဖျောက်ဆိပ်

Myanmar Name –  Pyauk – seik

Common Name – Indian elm or jungle cork tree

Botanical Name – Haloptelea integrifolia Planch.

Family Name – Ulmaceae

Habitat – most of Indian sub-continent, China and Myanmar. It is found mostly on plains but also in mountains on elevations up to 1100 m.

Habit – a large deciduous tree, about 20–25 m tall (rarely over 30 m), with a broad crown featuring several ascending branches.

Bark – Bark is grey in colour, 6-8 mm thick, whitish-grey, smooth; blaze yellowish-grey, streaked with light brown; branchlets pubescent. covered with blisters, peeling in corky scales on old trees.

Leaves – Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, scarious; petiole 5-10 mm, stout, pubescent; lamina 6-12.5 x 2.5-6.5 cm, ovate-oblong, ovate or elliptic-ovate, base rounded or subcordate, apex acuminate, margin entire, distantly serrate when young, coriaceous, glabrous above, appressed pubescent punctate below; lateral nerves 6-9 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent.

Inflorescence – Flowers are small, Flowers polygamous, appear before leaves, 5-8 mm across, greenish-purple, in axillary fascicles; tepals 4 or 5, free, anthers pubescent; female

Flower – flowers with longer pedicels; ovary superior, compressed, long stipitate, 2-winged, 1-celled, ovule 1; style 2 fid.

Fruit & Seed -Fruit a samara, 3 cm across, orbicular, wings nerved, glabrous, seed one and flat seed.

Flowering and Fruiting Time – Flowering to February – March and Fruiting to April – June

Usage – In traditional medicine, the bark is used to treat rheumatism. diabetes leprosy It is used in the treatment of skin diseases and hemorrhoids.