St Mary's College, Sulthan Bathery   /   Plant

Plant Details

Tamarindus indica L

Trees, to 20 m high, bark brown to brownish-black, rough with vertical fissures; branchlets warty, tomentose. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; stipules lateral, minute, cauducous; rachis 8-13 cm long, slender, glabrous, pulvinate; leaflets 20-34, opposite, sessile, estipellate; lamina 1.5-4 x 0.4-1.3 cm, oblong, base unequal, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 10-15 pairs, pinnate, slender, obscure, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerve; intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, 1 cm across, yellow with reddish-pink dots, in lax terminal racemes; bracts and bracteoles ovate-oblong, coloured, cauducous; pedicels upto 5 mm; calyx tube narrowly turbinate, lined by disc; lobes 4, subequal, oblong, imbricate; petals 3, outer one, 1 x 0.3 cm, rolled up, pink dotted, lateral 2, 1-1.5 x 0.7-1 cm, clawed, subequal, oblong-lanceolate, lower pair scaly; stamens 9 monadelphous, only 3 fertile, others reduced to bristle, base pubescent; anthers versatile; ovary half inferior, stipitate, adnate to the disc, ovules many; style attenuate, tomentose; stigma globose. Fruit a pod 10-15 x 1-2 cm, oblong, fruit wall crustaceous, mesocarp pulpy, endocarp septate, leathery, indehiscent; seeds 3-8 or more, obovoid-orbicular, compressed, brown.

Canopy compact and spreading. Trunk stout with deep furrows, Bark thick, dark brown, cracked. Leaves compound. Small flowers, yellowish with red veins in the petals. Fruit a brown curved pod, seeds enclosed in choclate brown pulp.

  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Habit: A large evergreen tree, upto 20m
  • Habitat: Cultivated
  • Status : common


Vernacular names

Assamese

  • Teteli

Eng

  • Tamarind

English

  • Indian date

  • Sampalok

  • Tamarind

  • Tamarind tree

Hin

  • Imli

Hindi

  • Imli

Irula

  • Puliyamaram

  • Sullamaram

Kannada

  • Hunse

Malayalam

  • Amlam

  • Balapuli

  • Kolpuli

  • Puli

  • Valampuli

Other

  • Assamese

  • Bengali

  • Camalindo

  • Gujarati

  • Hindi

  • Indian Date

  • Kannada

  • Konkani

  • Madeira Mahogany

  • Malayalam

  • Manipuri

  • Marathi

  • Nepalese

  • Oriya

  • Pali

  • Puliya

  • Punjabi

  • Sanskrit

  • Sulla

  • Tamarind

  • Tamil

  • Telugu

  • Tintuli

  • Urdu

  •  Imlii

  • Amli

  • Amili

  •  Amlaphalah

  •  Amlam

  •  Amlavrukshah

  •  Amalika

  •  Amlika

  •  Amalah

  •  Imli

  •  Imli

  •  Gurupatra

  •  Chandah

  •  Charitra

  • Chincha

  •  Chintidi

  • Chinch

  • Chinchyaam

  •  Chukramla

  •  Chukra

  •  Titri

  •  Tintidika

  •  Tintiri

  •  Tintidah

  •  Tintili

  •  Tintilika

  •  Phalamlam

  •  Mahamlam

  •  Vrukshamlam

  •  Shreshtamlam

  • Khati Aamli

  •  Amlika

  •  Amlamu

  •  Chincha

  • Chinta

  •  Tintrin

  •  Ambli

  •  Imli

  • Hunase

  •  Ambilam

  •  Intam

  •  Ekin

  •  Etala

  •  Otimam

  •  Kincam

  •  Canciva-karani

  •  Cantan

  •  Puli

  • Puli

  •  Valamapuli

  • Amlika

  •  Tintidika

  •  Tentula

  •  Tenteli

  •  Mange

Tamil

  • Puli

  • Puliyamaram

Medicinal Uses

highly commercialized medicinal plants is known for its potent anti-inflammatory activities. 7, 8 This tropical tree has been used to treat inflammation, stomach pain, throat pain, and rheumatism in traditional medicine