Friday, July 11, 2008

MADHUCA INDICA | MAHUA | POONAM | MOHA

MADHUCA INDICA | MAHUA | POONAM | MOHA
Scientific classification of  madhuca indica | mahua
Kingdom: plantae
Division: magnoliophyta
Class: magnoliopsida
Order: ericales
Family: sapotaceae
Genus: madhuca
Species: m. Longifolia
Common name ;- mahua, mahuva, ippe, poonam, moha, mohoka, illupai:- ..etc.
Nature:-it is a tree.
Leaves:-leaves are 10 – 30 centemeter long. Leaves are thick and leathery most of leaves pointed at the tip.
Flowers:-flowers are small and fleshy. Flowers are dull or pale white in colour.
Fruits:-in size fruits arec 2 – 6 centemeter long, fleshy and greenish.
Medicinal uses of madhuca indica (mahua):-this trees bark,leaves,fruits, flowers and seeds everything is useful in the making of drugs.
Barks useful in bleeding gums and ulcers, and also useful in the diabetes.
Moha leaves mixed with butter and applied on the burns.
Flowers are useful in the cough.
This trees seeds are useful in making of soaps and good useful in skin diseases.