Lasuda

Description:

Indian cherry is a small to moderate-sized deciduous tree with a short bole and spreading crown. The stem bark is greyish brown, smooth or longitudinally wrinkled. Flowers are short-stalked, bisexual and white in colour, appear in loose corymbose cymes.  the flowers open only at night. The fruit is a yellow or pinkish-yellow shining globose or ovoid drupe seated in a saucer-like enlarged calyx.  it turns black on ripening and the pulp gets viscid. Indian cherry grows in the sub-himalayan tract and outer ranges, ascending up to about 1500 m elevation. 

                               

Details :

Botanical Name : Cordia Dichotoma

English Name: Indian Cherry,Sebesten Fruit

Hindi Name : Lasoda, Lasora

Arabic Name : Dabak, Atbaa’ al-kalba

Bengali Name : Bahubar, Bal-phal, Buro-bahuri 

French Name : Bois chik

German Name : Breitblättrige Cordie

Gujarati Name : Gunda, Bargund 

Kannada Name : Mannadikay, Doduchallu 

Kashmiri Name : Sapistan 

Latin name : Cordia latifolia Roxb.

Marathi Name : Shelvan, Bhokar 

Persian Name : Sapistaan

Sanskrit Name : Bahuvara, Selu

Urdu Name : Sapistan
Chinese Name: Feng zheng zi
Myanmar Name: Thanat
Indonesia Name: Kendal, nunang, toteolo
Thai Name: Phak mong, man muu, man dong

Common name :Gumberry, Labeda, Lasora,Vad gundo,Goborhut, Bahubara, Bird lime tree,Indian Cherry, Clammy Cherry

Family Name : Boraginaceae

Part used : Seeds, Leaves.

Medicinal Uses :

• The seed kernel of c. Dichotoma contains a high proportion of fatty oils and proteins (46 and 31%, respectively) which has potential as cattle feed fuel.
• The wood is used to make agricultural implements.
• The bark is medicinal and several chemicals have been identified; allantoin, beta -sitosterol.
• Immature gunda berries are used as a vegetable and to make pickles after removing the stone and sticky white pulp. The sticky pulp is used to make glue.

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