🌲State Tree:
"Chatim" or "Devil Chatian"
Devil is the State tree of West Bengal. It is an evergreen tree found in West Bengal that attains an average height of up to 100 feet.
With its Small flowers greenish yellow in colour, the tree comprises of large leaves organized in clusters of seven. A large part of the tree is a great contributor in building effective medicines.
🌲NOTE:
Indian devil tree Quick Facts
Name: Indian devil tree
Scientific Name: Alstonia scholaris
Origin Indian subcontinent, Malay Peninsula, and Australasia Colors Green when young turning to brown as they matures Shapes Pendulous, two-lobed, dehiscent follicle, brown or green, dry or woody, spindle-shaped, 15-32 cm long, 4-6 mm in diameter Taste Bitter, astringent
Health benefits Cures recurrent and intermittent fever, Obesity & Cholesterol, Jaundice, Dandruff and Head Lice, Abscess.
🌲 popular common names :
This plants are blackboard tree, devil tree, ditabark, milkwood-pine, saptparni, shaitan tree, white cheesewood, Milky Pine, Djetutung, White Pine, Palmira Alstonia, Pine, Milky, Pulai, Jelutong, Australian fever bark tree, Australian quinine bark tree, bitter-bark tree, blackboard tree, chatiyan wood, shaitan, chattun, chatian.
🌲Plant description:
Indian devil tree is elegant evergreen, glabrous, tropical tree that grows about 40 m (130 ft.) tall.
🌲The plant has cylindrical trunk up to 125 cm in diameter.
🌲Leaves are 4-7 in a whorl, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 10 to 20 centimeters long, 3 to 4.5 centimeters wide, pointed at the base, rounded at the apex.
🌲Flowers are small, greenish white, many in umbellate panicles; corolla tube is short, very strongly scented.
🌲120 cm long; flowers 7-10 mm long white, cream or green.
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