Naywe

Myanmar Name – Naywe

Common Name – Batoko palm, Governor’s plum

Botanical Name – Flacourtia indica (Burm.f.)Merr.

Family Name – Flacourtiaceae

Habitat – Native to countries such as India, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and several African nations, including Nigeria and Cameroon. In Myanmar, it can be found in regions of the country, particularly in the southern and southeastern areas

Habit – Medium-sized tree or shrub, typically ranging from 3 to 10 meters in height. It has a rounded crown with dense foliage.

Bark – Grayish-brown and may be rough or slightly fissured.

Leaves – Simple, alternate, dark green and typically have an elliptical to ovate shape and serrated or toothed along the margins.

Inflorescence – Pedunculate axillary and terminal raceme fascicles, few to many flowers and greenish to yellowish in color.

Flower – Small, unisexual, a sepal 4-7, imbricate, connate near base, free above, margin ciliate, subpersistent, petals absent, extra-staminal disc, with distinct glands inserted before sepals have a greenish-yellow.

Fruit and seed – Indehiscent berry or drupe, ellipsoid-globose when ripe becoming obtusely constricted and ribbed when dried with 2 superposed pyrenes in per locule. Seeds 1-2, ovoid-obovoid, thinly coriaceous, non arillate, cotyledons orbicular.

Flowering and Fruiting Time – Flowering from March to June and fruiting from May to August.

Usage – As a medicinal plant, it is used to reduce inflammation and pain and to treat diabetes-related conditions.