Alangium salvifolium
Alangium salvifolium 
subsp. hexapetalum (Lam.) Wangeri
Common names
Sanskrit: Ankola.
Kannada: Ankole, Guddada goni.
Tamil: Alangi.
Malayalam: Kimri.
Telugu: Ankolamu.
 
Description: A straggling, armed, evergreen shrub.  Leaves alternate, broadly elliptic-ovate, subcordate at base, acuminate at apex, with distinct domatia in axils of veins on lower surface.  Flowers axillary, bisexual, ca 2 cm long, white. Fruit a drupe, ovoid, up to 2 cm across, crowned with remnants of calyx, red.  Seed solitary, hard.
Flowering: April – May.
Fruiting:    June – July.
Distribution: India: Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. E. Africa.
Uses: Fruits edible. Decoction of bark used as antidote for snakebite poisoning.

 

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