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 :
otanical 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
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.