Beautiful Shots Raman ji. I have some plants of this sp in my fields. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:32 PM, raman <[email protected]> wrote:
> The evergreen jamun plant is originally from Indonesia and India. Indian > mythology describes the Indian subcontinent as an island, 'situated in the > centre of the world', called Jambudweep. Because of a majority of Jamun > (black berry) trees, this island was named as Jambudweep. An evergreen > tropical tree, 50 to 100 ft. tall, with oblong opposite leaves that are > smooth, glossy and having a terpentine smell. Jamun has fragrant white > flowers in branched clusters at stem tips and purplish-black oval edible > berries. The leaves are antibacterial, and are used for strengthning the > teeth and gums. The fruit and seeds are sweet, acrid, sour, tonic, and > cooling, and are used in diabities, diarrhoea and ringworm. The bark is > astringent, sweet sour, diuretic, digestive and anthelmintic. > > Raman > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
