Chandigarh Forests
Department of Forest & Wildlife
UT Administration
Chandigarh
Department of Forest & Wildlife
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Division
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Angiosperms |
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Class
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Dicotledons |
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Subclass |
Gamopetalae |
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Series |
Epigynae |
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Order |
Rubiales |
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Family
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Rubiaceae |
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Genus
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Adina |
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Species
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cordifolia |
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Etymology: |
Derivied from Greek word adinos, clustered; referring to the arrangement of flowers in clusters. |
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Botanical name
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Adina cordifolia(Roxb.)Hook.f.(Haldina cordifolia(Roxb.) Ridsdale) |
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Local/Trade names:
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Haldu |
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Conservation status:
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Wild throughout north India. |
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Digonestic features: |
Wood yellow when fresh cut. |
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Description: |
Large deciduous tree; trunk buttressed at base. Bark lightgrey, exfoliates in patches. Leaves 8-20 cm long, broadly ovate or orbicular-cordate, abruptly acuminated, coriaceous,pubescent beneath; petiole 3-12 cm long, stipules conceals the terminal bud. Flowers small, yellow in globose pedunculate heads. Fruit capsule, many seeded, winged. |
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Phenology: |
Fls.: June-August. Frts.: February-May. |
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Distribution:
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Throughout the India. |
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Where to see it: |
Ornamental Flowering Section, Arboretum near Japanese Garden Gate No. 2. |
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Uses: |
Timber is easy to saw, seasons well and takes good polish; durable under cover, resistant against subterranean termites, but highly susceptible to drywood termites. It is one of the best Indian woods for flooring and paneling railway carriages, and for bobbins. A good turnery wood. Haldu is accepted as grade I commercial and moisture-proof plywood timber. Wrapping, writing, and printing paper is manufactured from the wood pulp. Bark yields tannin; spent bark used for boards. Leaves used as fodder. Bark febrifuge. |
